The dense sieves form the double-negation Grothendieck topology. Its sheaf topos is a Boolean topos: the union of a subobject with its pseudocomplement is dense and thus becomes the whole object after sheafification. This need not be the atomic topology, which requires every nonempty sieve to be dense.
Consider a site indexed by natural-number objects with arrows only downwards, the cancellation condition for equally typed , and the separation condition that arrows , admit with but . Its dense-sieve sheaf topos is a Boolean topos and a two-valued topos. The representables are separated. No nonempty partial map exists, by the separation condition and naturality. The associated sheaves consequently admit no maps . Each has nonzero support and maps epimorphically to one, but their product has an empty value at every stage , because its factor does.
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