Abstract

This book introduces the categorical side of realizability. It begins with partial combinatory algebras and categories of assemblies, develops triposes and the tripos-to-topos construction, studies the effective topos, and surveys major realizability variants. It is a bridge between classical computability-theoretic machinery and categorical logic, especially for assemblies, internal logic of a topos, and synthetic approaches to computation.

Outline

Chapter 1: Partial Combinatory Algebras

  • Basic definitions
  • -valued predicates, conditional pcas, and Longley’s theorem
  • Further properties, recursion theory, and finite types
  • Examples of pcas
  • Morphisms and assemblies
  • Applicative morphisms and functors between categories of assemblies
  • Decidable applicative morphisms and adjoining partial functions to a pca
  • Order-pcas

Chapter 2: Realizability Triposes and Toposes

  • Triposes
  • The tripos-to-topos construction
  • Internal logic of realizability constructions
  • The constant objects functor
  • Geometric morphisms
  • Examples of triposes and inclusions of triposes
  • Iteration
  • Glueing of triposes

Chapter 3: The Effective Topos

  • Arithmetic in the effective topos
  • Special objects and arrows
  • Analysis in the effective topos
  • Discrete families and uniform maps
  • Set theory in the effective topos
  • Synthetic domain theory
  • Synthetic computability theory
  • General comments on the effective topos construction

Chapter 4: Variations

  • Extensional realizability
  • Modified realizability
  • Function realizability
  • Lifschitz realizability
  • Relative realizability
  • Realizability toposes over bases other than Set

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