Some Applications
This chapter describes some applications of the theory developed in the previous chapters in a variety of different mathematical contexts. The main methodology used to generate such applications is the ‘bridge technique’ presented in Chapter 2. The discussed topics include restrictions of Morita equivalences to quotients of the two theories involved, give a solution to a prozblem of Lawvere concerning the boundary operator on subtoposes, establish syntax-semantics ‘bridges’ for quotients of theories of presheaf type, present topos-theoretic interpretations and generalizations of Fraïssé’s theorem in model theory on countably categorical theories and of topological Galois theory, develop a notion of maximal spectrum of a commutative ring with unit and investigate compactness conditions for geometric theories allowing one to identify theories lying in smaller fragments of geometric logic.