Solution

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Work internally with the Heyting algebra and the truth value of . For , the identities
prove that it is an open local operator.
For a monomorphism with characteristic map , density means , equivalently . This says exactly that is contained in , or that the pullback mono is invertible. Consequently
An object is an -sheaf exactly when the canonical map , taking a value to its constant function on , is invertible. Indeed is dense for every . The sheaf condition makes bijective for every , which proves invertible by the Yoneda lemma. Conversely, if is invertible and is dense, the isomorphism gives
so is a sheaf.
The pullback functor has right adjoint , sending to . Every map is automatically over , since is subterminal object, proving this adjunction directly. Its counit is evaluation and is invertible. The inverse sends to its image in together with the constant function of value ; all elements of agree, so the composites are identities. The right adjoint is therefore full and faithful, and its image consists of objects fixed by . The sheaf characterization above proves
For a general local operator , its dense monomorphism classifier is the ordered subobject
A mono is j-dense exactly when its characteristic map factors through . If , then , which has least element . This is least internally over every parameter object, not just among global points.
Conversely suppose a global is internally least. Upward closure of gives exactly when , in every context. For let be its -closure, with characteristic predicate . The mono is dense: restricting to gives truth. Its characteristic map therefore lands in , so leastness of gives . Internally this is
On the other hand , and applying to gives . Inflationarity then gives . Both inequalities yield
This proves the least dense truth characterizes an open local operator criterion without replacing its internal order condition by the weaker condition on global truth values.

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