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<journal-id>1409-2433</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de Matemática Teoría y Aplicaciones]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. Mat]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-2433</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Centro de Investigaciones en Matemática Pura y Aplicada (CIMPA) y Escuela de Matemática, San José, Costa Rica.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1409-24332012000100001</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Objetos k-finitos decidibles y cardinales finitos en un topos abitrario]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[K-finite decidable objcts and finite cardinals in an arbitrary topos]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Acuña Ortega]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Osvaldo]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="A01">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Costa Rica Escuela de Matemática ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ San José]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>2012</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>2012</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>19</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>6</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-24332012000100001&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-24332012000100001&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-24332012000100001&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Probamos en un topo arbitrario que la clase de los objetos Kfinitos decidibles es igual a la clase de los cardinales finitos de E si y solo si todo X K-finito decidible tal que X &#8594;1 un epimorfismo si y solo si X&#8594;1 es tal que tiene una sección 1&#8594;X]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[In an elemetary topos ", we prove that the class of K-finite decidable objects is the same to the class of finite cardinals in E if and only if every K-finite decidable object X such that X&#8594;1 is epic, then 1&#8594;X is split epic]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Teoría de topos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[objetos K-finitos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[objetos decidibles]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Topoi]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[K-finite objects]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[decidable objects]]></kwd>
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</front><body><![CDATA[ <div class="WordSection1">     <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span  style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Objetos k-finitos <span class="SpellE">decidibles</span> y cardinales finitos en un topos <span class="SpellE">abitrario</span></span></b><span  style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>     <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span  style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">K-finite decidable <span class="SpellE">objcts</span> and finite cardinals in an arbitrary <span class="SpellE">topos</span></span></b><b><span  style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>     <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span  style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US">    <br> </span></p>     <div style="text-align: center;"><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Osvaldo Acu&#241;a Ortega<a href="#afiliacion1">*</a><a name="afiliacion2"></a>+</span>    <br> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></div>     <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a  name="correspondencia2"></a>*<a href="#correspondencia1">Direcci&#243;n para correspondencia</a></span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>     <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span  style=""> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"></span></div>     <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span  style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Resumen</span></b><span  style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">    ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<br>     <br> </span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Probamos en un topo arbitrario que la clase de los objetos <span class="SpellE">Kfinitos</span> <span  class="SpellE">decidibles</span> es igual a la clase de los cardinales finitos de E si y solo si todo X K-finito <span class="SpellE">decidible</span> tal que X </span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&#8594;</span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">1 un <span  class="SpellE">epimorfismo</span> si y solo si X</span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&#8594;</span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">1 es tal que tiene una secci&#243;n 1</span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&#8594;</span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">X.</span><span  style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">    <br>     <br> </span><b><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Palabras clave:</span></b><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> Teor&#237;a de topos, objetos K-finitos, objetos <span class="SpellE">decidibles</span>.</span><span  style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">    <br>     <br> </span><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">Abstract</span></b><span  style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US">    <br>     <br> </span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">In an elemetary topos ", we prove that the class of K-finite decidable objects is the same to the class of finite cardinals in E if and only if every K-finite decidable object X such that X</span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">&#8594;</span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">1 is epic, then 1</span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">&#8594;</span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">X is split epic.</span><span  style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US">    <br>     <br> </span><b><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">Keywords</span></b><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">: Topoi, K-finite objects, decidable objects.</span><span  style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US">    ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<br>     <br> </span><b><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">Mathematics Subject Classification</span></b><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">: 03G30, 18B25.</span><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>     <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span  style=""> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"></span></div>     <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span  style="">    <br> </span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Ver contenido disponible en <span class="SpellE">pdf</span></span><span  style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>     <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span  style=""> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"></span></div>     <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span  style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US">    <br> Referencias</span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">    <br>     <!-- ref --><br> </span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">1 Acu&#241;a-Ortega, O. (1986) &#8220;An exact coexact characterization of the finite cardinals&#8221;, <i>Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra</i> 43(3): 211&#8211;233.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=1947096&pid=S1409-2433201200010000100001&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">    <!-- ref --><br> </span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">2 Acu&#241;a-Ortega, O. (1977) <i>Finiteness in Topoi</i>, Ph. D. Dissertation, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=1947098&pid=S1409-2433201200010000100002&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></span><span  style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US">    <!-- ref --><br> </span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">3 Acu&#241;a-Ortega, O. (1986)&#8220;Sobre una definici&#243;n de cardinales funitos en un topos arbitrario&#8221;, <i>Revista Colombiana de Matem&#225;ticas </i>20(3&#8211;4):</span>     &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=1947100&pid=S1409-2433201200010000100003&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --><!-- ref --><br> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">4 Acu&#241;a-Ortega, O.; <span class="SpellE">Linton</span>, F.E.J. (1979) &#8220;<span  class="SpellE">Finiteness</span> and <span class="SpellE">decidability</span> I&#8221;, in:<i> <span  class="SpellE">Applications</span> of <span class="SpellE">Sheaves</span></i>, <span class="SpellE">Lecture</span> Notes in <span class="SpellE">Mathematics</span> 753, <span  class="SpellE">Springer</span>&#8211;<span class="SpellE">Verlag</span>, New York: 80&#8211;100.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=1947101&pid=S1409-2433201200010000100004&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">    <!-- ref --><br> </span><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">5 Benabou, J. (s.f.) &#8220;Definability, finiteness, projectivity and choice&#8221;, (preliminary version), to appear.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=1947103&pid=S1409-2433201200010000100005&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --><br>     <br> </span><a name="correspondencia1"></a><a href="#correspondencia2">*</a><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Correspondencia a: Osvaldo Acu&#241;a Ortega. Escuela de Matem&#225;tica, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jos&#233;, Costa Rica.    <br> </span></p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a  name="afiliacion1"></a><a href="#afiliacion2">*</a>Escuela de Matem&#225;tica, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jos&#233;, Costa Rica.</span>    <br> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span><span  style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>     <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span  style=""> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"></span></div>     <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span  style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"  lang="EN-US">Received: 8-Feb-2011; Revised: 7-Nov-2011; Accepted: 30-Nov-2011</span></b><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>     <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span  style=""> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"></span></div>     <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div>      ]]></body><back>
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