Strongly Zero-Dimensional Locales

New kinds of strongly zero-dimensional locales are introduced and characterized, which are different from Johnstone's, and almost all the topological properties for strongly zero-dimensional spaces have the pointless localic forms. Particularly, the Stone-Čech compactification of a strongly zero-dimensional locale is strongly zero-dimensional. Received January 21, 1999, Accepted February 1, 2000     

Locale同伦理论

本文引入了locale连续映射同伦的概念,建立了locale同伦范畴,构造性地证明了任一locale连续映射都同伦等价于一个locale包含映射。通过引入locale H群的概念(它是locale群概念的自然推广),建立了locale同伦范畴到群同态范畴的一个反变函子。特别地,我们建立了locale同伦群范畴上的基本群函子,证明了locale L上以p为基点的基本群同构于L的谱空间pt(L)上以p为基点的基本群。因此,基本群函子是locale范畴中的一个同伦不变量。     

弱空间式Locale

空间式locale范畴SLoc是locale范畴Loc的余反射满子范畴,但对locale乘积不封闭．本文引入弱空间式locale,证明弱空间式locale范畴WSloc为范畴Loc的余反射满子范畴,且对locale秉积封闭．还证明了一个locale A是空间式的当且仅当它的枝映射localeN(A)是弱空间式的;一个空问式locale的每一个子locale都是空间式的当且仅当它的每一个子locale是弱空间式的．最后,证明了弱空间式性在定向函子下保持不变．     

Localic subspaces and colimits of localic spaces

A spectral space is localic if it corresponds to a frame under Stone Duality. This class of spaces was introduced by the author (under the name ’locales’) as the topological version of the classical frame theoretic notion of locales, see Johnstone and also Picado and Pultr). The appropriate class of subspaces of a localic space are the localic subspaces. These are, in particular, spectral subspaces. The following main questions are studied (and answered): Given a spectral subspace of a localic space, how can one recognize whether the subspace is even localic? How can one construct all localic subspaces from particularly simple ones? The set of localic subspaces and the set of spectral subspaces are both inverse frames. The set of localic subspaces is known to be the image of an inverse nucleus on the inverse frame of spectral subspaces. How can the inverse nucleus be described explicitly? Are there any special properties distinguishing this particular inverse nucleus from all others? Colimits of spectral spaces and localic spaces are needed as a tool for the comparison of spectral subspaces and localic subspaces.     

Extremal Prime Filters and Universality of Some Categories

Abstract

Due to the existence of constants, classical topological categories cannot be universal in the sense of containing each concrete category as a full subcategory. In the point-free case, this obstruction vanishes and the question of universality makes sense again. The main problem, namely that as to whether the category of locales and localic morphisms is universal is still open; we prove, however, the universality of the following categories:

- pairs (locale, sublocale) with the localic morphisms preserving the distinguished sublocales,

- frames with frame homomorphisms reflecting the maximal prime ideals,

- Priestley spaces with f-maps preserving the maximal elements.     

T D property and spatial sublocales

As one of main backgrounds of locale theory, topologies have close connections with locales. But locales have other backgrounds such as algebra, mathematical logic, etc. So there are many differences between locales and topologies. Spatiality is an important localic property to investigate the connections between locales and topologies. TheT _D property is a special separation property which plays an important role in this kind of investigations. Just as it will be proved in this paper, theT _D property often appears as the lowest requirement for many topological spaces such that they can be described with localic properties and vice versa. In this paper, we show these special properties of theT _D axiom and investigate some other interesting and important problems ofT _D -spatiality of locales.Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Science Foundation of the State Education Commision of China.Supported by the Fund for Excellent Young University Teachers of the State Educational Commission of China and theE _x -Oversea-Scholars Fund of the Educational Commission of China.     

Lax proper maps of locales

We give a proof of localic Priestley duality. Our approach is based on lax proper maps of locales, which provide a vehicle for presenting the Priestley version of full Stone duality constructively and preserve spatial intuitions.     

Entourages, Covers and Localic Groups

Due to the nature of product in the category of locales, the entourage uniformities in the point-free context only mimic the classical Weil approach while the cover (Tukey type) ones can be viewed as an immediate extension. Nevertheless the resulting categories are concretely isomorphic. We present a transparent construction of this isomorphism, and apply it to the natural uniformities of localic groups. In particular we show that localic group homomorphisms are uniform, thus providing natural forgetful functors from the category of localic groups into any of the two categories of uniform locales.     

Locales as spectral spaces

A frame is a complete distributive lattice that satisfies the infinite distributive law ${b \wedge \bigvee_{i \in I} a_i = \bigvee_{i \in I} b \wedge a_i}$ b ∧ ? i ∈ I a i = ? i ∈ I b ∧ a i . The lattice of open sets of a topological space is a frame. The frames form a category Fr. The category of locales is the opposite category Fr ^op . The category BDLat of bounded distributive lattices contains Fr as a subcategory. The category BDLat is anti-equivalent to the category of spectral spaces, Spec (via Stone duality). There is a subcategory of Spec that corresponds to the subcategory Fr under the anti-equivalence. The objects of this subcategory are called locales, the morphisms are the localic maps; the category is denoted by Loc. Thus locales are spectral spaces. The category Loc is equivalent to the category Fr ^op . A topological approach to locales is initiated via the systematic study of locales as spectral spaces. The first task is to characterize the objects and the morphisms of the category Spec that belong to the subcategory Loc. The relationship between the categories Top (topological spaces), Spec and Loc is studied. The notions of localic subspaces and localic points of a locale are introduced and studied. The localic subspaces of a locale X form an inverse frame, which is anti-isomorphic to the assembly associated with the frame of open and quasi-compact subsets of X.     

Étale groupoids and their quantales

We establish close and previously unknown relations between quantales and groupoids. In particular, to each étale groupoid, either localic or topological, there is associated a unital involutive quantale. We obtain a bijective correspondence between localic étale groupoids and their quantales, which are given a rather simple characterization and here are called inverse quantal frames. We show that the category of inverse quantal frames is equivalent to the category of complete and infinitely distributive inverse monoids, and as a consequence we obtain a (non-functorial) correspondence between these and localic étale groupoids that generalizes more classical results concerning inverse semigroups and topological étale groupoids. This generalization is entirely algebraic and it is valid in an arbitrary topos. As a consequence of these results we see that a localic groupoid is étale if and only if its sublocale of units is open and its multiplication map is semiopen, and an analogue of this holds for topological groupoids. In practice we are provided with new tools for constructing localic and topological étale groupoids, as well as inverse semigroups, for instance via presentations of quantales by generators and relations. The characterization of inverse quantal frames is to a large extent based on a new quantale operation, here called a support, whose properties are thoroughly investigated, and which may be of independent interest.     

Universal categories of uniform and metric locales

Recall that a category is called universal if it contains an isomorphic copy of any concrete category as a full subcategory. In particular, if is universal then every monoid can be represented as the endomorphism monoid of an object in . A major obstacle to universality in categories of topological nature are the constant maps (which prevent, for instance, representing nontrivial groups as endomorphism monoids). Thus, to obtain, say, a universal category of uniform spaces, the constants have to be prohibited by artificial additional conditions (for instance, conditions of an openness type). Since in generalized spaces (locales) we do not necessarily have points, the question naturally arises as to whether we can get rid of surplus conditions in search of universality there. In this paper we prove that the category of uniform locales with all uniform morphisms is universal. Indeed we establish the universality already for the subcategory of very special uniform locales, namely Boolean metric ones. Moreover, universality is also obtained for more general morphisms, such as Cauchy morphisms, as well as for special metric choices of morphisms (contractive, Lipschitz). The question whether one can avoid uniformities remains in general open: we do not know whether the category of all locales with all localic morphisms is universal. However, the answer is final for the Boolean case: by a result of McKenzie and Monk ([10], see Section 4) one cannot represent groups by endomorphisms of Boolean algebras without restriction by an additional structure.We use only basic categorical terminology, say, that from the introductory chapters of [9]. All the necesasary facts concerning generalized spaces (frames, locales) and universality are explicitly stated. More detail on frames (locales) can be found in [8] and on universality and embeddings of categories in [11].Presented by E. Fried.     

Locale 的内部与边界

本文定义了Ｌｏｃａｌｅ的内部算子与边界算子，详细讨论了这两个算子的性质，进一步得到了Ｌｏｃａｌｅ形式的Ｋｕｒａｔｏｗｓｋｉ定理。     

Locale 的内部与边界

本文定义了ｌｏｃａｌｅ的内部算子与边界算子,详细讨论了这两个算子的性质,进一步得到了ｌｏｃａｌｅ形式的Ｋｕｒａｔｏｗｓｋｉ定理。     

Localic Krull dimension

We shall define localic Krull dimension for topological spaces. In particular, a space X has the localic Krull dimension n if n is the greatest number such that X can be mapped, via a continuous and open map, onto the n-chain seen as an Alexandroff space. We shall discuss the applications of this concept in obtaining topological completeness results in modal logic. We shall also show how the localic Krull dimension is related to the Krull dimension in ring theory. (© 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

拓扑系统的紧性和分离性

考察拓扑系统的两种紧性——空间式紧和locale式紧,给出紧性的若干刻画,讨论了两种紧性的相互关系,证明了拓扑系统的两种紧性都是拓扑空间紧性的良好推广,说明了紧拓扑系统的闭子拓扑系统、有限和系统以及积系统仍是紧拓扑系统。最后在拓扑系统中考察了紧性加强分离性的问题,得到了紧,(强)T2拓扑系统为(强)T3,(强)T4拓扑系统等结论,并用理想收敛刻画了拓扑系统的强T2分离性。     

Isocompactness in the Category of Locales

We study isocompactness in Loc defined, exactly as in Top, by requiring that every countably compact closed sublocale be compact. This is a genuine extension of the same-named topological concept since every Boolean (or, even more emphatically, every paracompact) locale is isocompact. A slightly stronger variant is defined by decreeing that the closure of every complemented countably compact sublocale be compact. Dropping the adjective “complemented” yields a formally even stronger property, which we show to be preserved by finite products. Metrizable locales (or, more generally, perfectly normal locales) do not distinguish between the three variants of isocompactness. Each of the stronger variants of isocompactness travels across a proper map of locales, and in the opposite direction if the map is a surjection in Loc.     

Locatedness and overt sublocales

Locatedness is one of the fundamental notions in constructive mathematics. The existence of a positivity predicate on a locale, i.e. the locale being overt, or open, has proved to be fundamental in constructive locale theory. We show that the two notions are intimately connected.Bishop defines a metric space to be compact if it is complete and totally bounded. A subset of a totally bounded set is again totally bounded iff it is located. So a closed subset of a Bishop compact set is Bishop compact iff it is located. We translate this result to formal topology. ‘Bishop compact’ is translated as compact and overt. We propose a definition of locatedness on subspaces of a formal topology, and prove that a closed subspace of a compact regular formal space is located iff it is overt. Moreover, a Bishop-closed subset of a complete metric space is Bishop compact — that is, totally bounded and complete — iff its localic completion is compact overt.Finally, we show by elementary methods that the points of the Vietoris locale of a compact regular locale are precisely its compact overt sublocales.We work constructively, predicatively and avoid the use of the axiom of countable choice.     

Locatedness and overt sublocales

Locatedness is one of the fundamental notions in constructive mathematics. The existence of a positivity predicate on a locale, i.e. the locale being overt, or open, has proved to be fundamental in constructive locale theory. We show that the two notions are intimately connected.Bishop defines a metric space to be compact if it is complete and totally bounded. A subset of a totally bounded set is again totally bounded iff it is located. So a closed subset of a Bishop compact set is Bishop compact iff it is located. We translate this result to formal topology. ‘Bishop compact’ is translated as compact and overt. We propose a definition of locatedness on subspaces of a formal topology, and prove that a closed subspace of a compact regular formal space is located iff it is overt. Moreover, a Bishop-closed subset of a complete metric space is Bishop compact — that is, totally bounded and complete — iff its localic completion is compact overt.Finally, we show by elementary methods that the points of the Vietoris locale of a compact regular locale are precisely its compact overt sublocales.We work constructively, predicatively and avoid the use of the axiom of countable choice.     

Some simple conditions implying topological transitivity for interval maps

Summary. We provide some sufficient conditions for topological transitivity of piecewise monotonic maps on [0,1]. Our theorems provide shorter and elementary proofs for some known recent results.