Game is not a topos
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Answer
The category is not cartesian closed and therefore is neither an elementary nor a Grothendieck topos. This is Remark B.27 of Games as recursive coalgebras.
The obstruction is failure of a product functor to preserve colimits. For the game used in the paper, the quotient of its canonical -action is , whereas the corresponding quotient after multiplying by has six elements and is not . Hence has no right adjoint.
This does not contradict the existence of a subobject classifier or local finite presentability. It also does not contradict closedness for Conway addition: the categorical product and Conway addition are different operations.
Separate question
A suitable completion might be a topos even though itself is not. Note 42 concerns such a completion. Any claim about it must specify the completion and embedding and provide its own proof; it does not reopen the answered question above.
Connections
- Related
- Internal hom for Conway additionbox積はDay convolutionか proposed
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- Exact completion of games and the Leibniz obstruction proposed
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