Subcategories of Filter Tower Spaces

The concept of a convergence tower space, or equivalently, a convergence approach space is formulated here in the context of a Cauchy setting in order to include a completion theory. Subcategories of filter tower spaces are defined in terms of axioms involving a general t-norm, T, in order to include a broad range of spaces. A T-regular sequence for a filter tower space is defined and, moreover, it is shown that the category of T-regular objects is a bireflective subcategory of all filter tower spaces. A completion theory for subcategories of filter tower spaces is given.     

Filter spaces

The category FIL of filter spaces and cauchy maps is a topological universe. This paper establishes the foundation for a completion theory forT ₂ filter spaces.     

On the MacNeille Completion of the Category of Partially Ordered Topological Spaces

Preordered topological spaces for which the order has a closed graph form a topological category. Within this category we identify the MacNeille completions (coinciding with the universal initial completions) of five monotopological subcategories, namely those of the T₀(T₁, T₂) preordered spaces and the (completely regular) partially ordered spaces. We also show that a functor due to L. NACHBIN from the quasi-uniform spaces to the preordered spaces preserves initial sources.     

Quotient-reflective and bireflective subcategories of the category of preordered sets

In previous papers, the notions of “closedness” and “strong closedness” in set-based topological categories were introduced. In this paper, we give the characterization of closed and strongly closed subobjects of an object in the category Prord of preordered sets and show that they form appropriate closure operators which enjoy the basic properties like idempotency (weak) hereditariness, and productivity.We investigate the relationships between these closure operators and the well-known ones, the up- and down-closures. As a consequence, we characterize each of T₀, T₁, and T₂ preordered sets and show that each of the full subcategories of each of T₀, T₁, T₂ preordered sets is quotient-reflective in Prord. Furthermore, we give the characterization of each of pre-Hausdorff preordered sets and zero-dimensional preordered sets, and show that there is an isomorphism of the full subcategory of zero-dimensional preordered sets and the full subcategory of pre-Hausdorff preordered sets. Finally, we show that both of these subcategories are bireflective in Prord.     

ON CERTAIN INITIAL COMPLETIONS IN FUZZY TOPOLOGY

Abstract

Following a lead given by I.W. Alderton, it is shown that the MacNeille completion and the universal initial completion coincide for the categories of zero-dimensional fuzzy T₀-topological spaces, T₀-fuzzy closure spaces, 2T ₀-fuzzy bitopological spaces, and T ₁-fuzzy topological spaces and that these turn out to be respectively the categories of zero-dimensional fuzzy topological spaces, fuzzy closure spaces, fussy bitopological spaces, and fuzzy R ₀ topological spaces.     

A note on Cauchy spaces

In previous papers, various notions of (strongly) closed subobject, (strongly) open subobject, connected, compact and T _i , i=0,1,2 objects in a topological category were introduced and compared. The main objective of this paper is to characterize each of these classes of objects in the category of Cauchy spaces as well as to examine how these generalizations are related.     

Closed structures on categories of topological spaces

The category of all topological spaces and continuous maps and its full subcategory of all T_o-spaces admit (up to isomorphism) precisely one structure of symmetric monoidal closed category (see [2]). In this paper we shall prove the same result for any epireflective subcategory of the category of topological spaces (particularly e.g. for the categories of Hausdorff spaces, regular spaces, Tychonoff spaces).     

One Setting for All: Metric, Topology, Uniformity, Approach Structure

For a complete lattice V which, as a category, is monoidal closed, and for a suitable Set-monad T we consider (T,V)-algebras and introduce (T,V)-proalgebras, in generalization of Lawvere's presentation of metric spaces and Barr's presentation of topological spaces. In this lax-algebraic setting, uniform spaces appear as proalgebras. Since the corresponding categories behave functorially both in T and in V, one establishes a network of functors at the general level which describe the basic connections between the structures mentioned by the title. Categories of (T,V)-algebras and of (T,V)-proalgebras turn out to be topological over Set.     

An Elementary Approach to Exponentiable Maps

Originally, exponentiable maps in the category Top of topological spaces were described by Niefield in terms of certain fibrewise Scott-open sets. This generalizes the first characterization of exponentiable spaces by Day and Kelly, which was improved thereafter by Hofmann and Lawson who described them as core-compact spaces.Besides various categorical methods, the Sierpinski-space is an essential tool in Niefield's original proof. Therefore, this approach fails to apply to quotient reflective subcategories of Top like Haus, the category of Hausdorff spaces. A recent generalization of the Hofmann–Lawson improvement to exponentiable maps enables now to reprove the characterization in a completely different and very elementary way. This approach works for any nontrivial quotient reflective subcategory of Top or Top/ _T , the category of all spaces over a fixed base space T, as well as for exponentiable monomorphisms with respect to epi-reflective subcategories.An important special case is the category Sep_Top/ _T of separated maps, i.e. distinct points in the same fibre can be separated in the total space by disjoint open neighbourhoods. The exponentiable objects in Sep turn out to be the open and fibrewise locally compact maps. The same holds for Haus/ _T , T a Hausdorff space. In this case, a similar characterization was obtained by Cagliari and Mantovani.     

On epireflective and coreflective hulls of a particular L-topological space

In this paper, we study some aspects of the category L-ZTop of zero-dimensional L-topological spaces. After noting that it is a topological category, we identify a ‘Sierpinski object’ L_Z in it. We further show that two epireflective hulls of L_Z respectively turn out to be the categories of zero-dimensional T₀-L-topological spaces and of zero-dimensional sober L-topological spaces. We also determine the coreflective hull of L_Z in the category of L-topological spaces.     

Many Familiar Categories can be Interpreted as Categories of Generalized Metric Spaces

The simple concepts of (general) distance function and homometry (a map that preserves distances up to a calibration) are introduced, and it is shown how some natural distance functions on various mathematical objects lead to concrete embeddings of the following categories into the resulting category DIST°: quasi-pseudo-metric, topological, and (quasi-)uniform spaces with various kinds of maps; groups and lattice-ordered abelian groups; rings and modules, particularly fields; sets with reflexive relations and relation-preserving maps (particularly directed loop-less graphs and quasi-ordered sets); measured spaces with Radon-continuous maps; Boolean, Brouwerian, and orthomodular lattices; categories with combined objects, for example topological groups, ordered topological spaces, ordered fields, Banach spaces with linear contractions or linear continuous maps and so on.     

Δ-spaces

We introduce the notion of a Δ-space and argue that a complete subcategory of the categoryTOP ₀of all topological T₀-spaces, defined by Δ-spaces, is a subdirectly closed subcategory ofTOP ₀that contains many of the known denotational semantic categories of topological spaces as subdirectly closed subcategories. As a consequence, the affirmative answer is given to Scott’s question which inquires whether the category of bifinite domains is a complete subdirectly closed subcategory ofEQU. Supported jointly by RFFR grant No. 96-0-00976 and by DFG grant No. 436-11312670. Translated fromAlgebra i Logika, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 667–679, November–December, 1999.     

Exponentiable Streams and Prestreams

Inspired by a construction of Escardó, Lawson, and Simpson, we give a general construction of $\mathcal C$ -generated objects in a topological construct. When $\mathcal C$ consists of exponentiable objects, the resulting category is Cartesian-closed. This generalizes the familiar construction of compactly-generated spaces, and we apply this to Krishnan’s categories of streams and prestreams, as well as to Haucourt streams. For that, we need to identify the exponentiable objects in these categories: for prestreams, we show that these are the preordered core-compact topological spaces, and for streams, these are the core-compact streams.     

Hausdorff separation in categories

Considering subobjects, points and a closure operator in an abstract category, we introduce a generalization of the Hausdorff separation axiom for topological spaces: the notion ofT ₂-object. We discuss the properties ofT ₂-objects, which depend essentially on the behaviour of points, and finally we relate them to the well-known separated objects.The results of this paper are essentially taken from the author's Ph. D. Thesis written under the supervision of Professors M. Sobral and W. Tholen and partially supported by a scholarship of I.N.I.C.-Instituto Nacional de Investigação Científica.     

Compact nilpotent groups

Herrlich, Salicrup, and Strecker [HSS] have shown that Kuratowski’s Theorem, namely, that a space X is compact if and only if for every space Y, the projection π₂X×Y → Y is a closed map, can be interpreted categorically, and hence generalized and applied in a wider settin than the category of topological spaces. The first author, in an earlier paperj [Fl] , applied this categorical interpretation of compactness in categories of R-modules, obtaining a theory of compactness for each torsion theory T. In the case of the category of abelian groups and a hereditary torsion theory T, a group G is T-compact provided G/TG is a T-injective. In this note, the notion of compact is extended to the categories of hypercentral groups, nilpotent groups, and of FC-groups; it is shown that if T _π denotes the π-torsion subgroup functor for a set of primes π, then a group G is T _π-compact provided G/T _πG is π-complete, extending the abelian group result in a natural way.     

Fell topology on the space of functions with closed graph

LetX andY beT ₁ topological spaces andG(X, Y) the space of all functions with closed graph. Conditions under which the Fell topology and the weak Fell topology coincide onG(X,Y) are given. Relations between the convergence in the Fell topologyτF, Kuratowski and continuous convergence are studied too. Characterizations of a topological spaceX by separation axioms of (G(X, R), τF) and topological properties of (G(X, R), τF) are investigated.     

On the characterization of radical and semisimple classes in categories

We define and characterize radical and semisimple classes in a category K which satisfies certain conditions. These conditions are such that K could be any of the categories of associative rings, groupsR-modules, topological spaces or graphs. Among others, the following is proved:.

A class of objects R in K is a radical class if and only if K is a cohereditary component class which is closed under extensions and with T ? R. A class of objects S in K is a semisimple class if and only if S is a hereditary class which is closed under subdirect embed-dings and extensions with T ? S.     

On Homeomorphisms of Effective Topological Spaces

We study effective presentations and homeomorphisms of effective topological spaces. By constructing a functor from the category of computable models into the category of effective topological spaces, we show in particular that there exist homeomorphic effective topological spaces admitting no hyperarithmetical homeomorphism between them and there exist effective topological spaces whose autohomeomorphism group has the cardinality of the continuum but whose only hyperarithmetical autohomeomorphism is trivial. It is also shown that if the group of autohomeomorphisms of a hyperarithmetical topological space has cardinality less than 2 then this group is hyperarithmetical. We introduce the notion of strong computable homeomorphism and solve the problem of the number of effective presentations of T ₀-spaces with effective bases of clopen sets with respect to strong homeomorphisms.     

On Q-sobriety

The study of fixed-basis variety-based topology was initiated by S.A. Solovyov (in 2008), which, among other things, generalizes fuzzy topology. We extend within this framework, an earlier result due to Srivastava et al. (in 1998), which showed that the category of sober fuzzy topological spaces is the epireflective hull of the fuzzy Sierpinski space in the category of T₀-fuzzy topological spaces.