PROXIMAL LIMIT SPACES

Abstract

The proximal limit spaces are introduced which fill the gap arising from the existence of proximity spaces, uniform spaces, and uniform limit spaces. It is shown that the proximal limit spaces can be considered as a bireflective subcategory of the topological category of uniform limit spaces. A limit space is induced by a proximal limit space if and only if it is a S₁-limit space.     

NORMAL NEARNESS SPACES

A concept of normality for nearness spaces is introduced which agrees with the usual normality in the case of topological spaces, is hereditary, and is preserved under the taking of the nearness completion. It is proved that the nearness product of a regular contigual space and a normal nearness space is always normal. The locally fine nearness spaces are studied, particularly in relation to normality conditions.     

SUPERCATEGORIES OF THE CATEGORY OF NEARNESS SPACES

Abstract

The framework in which nearness spaces were defined by H. Herrlich [1] and [2], leads one to consider the supercategory Pow of the category Near of nearness spaces, having as objects all pairs (X,ξ), where X is a set and ξ ? P(P(X)) is any subset of the power set of the power set of X, and as morphisms f: (X,ξ) → (Y,n) all functions f: X → Y such that, if A ? ξ then fA □ {f(A) | A ξ A} ? η. In this paper we show that the full subcategories of Pow comprising the objects satisfying subsets of the prenearness space axioms lie in a lattice of bireflections or bicoreflections. This serves as a first step towards the aim of characterizing all bireflective (resp. bicoreflective) and even all initially complete subcategories of Pow.     

LOCAL COMPACTNESS IN SEMI-UNIFORM CONVERGENCE SPACES

Abstract

Local compactness is studied in the highly convenient setting of semi-uniform convergence spaces which form a common generalization of (symmetric) limit spaces (and thus of symmetric topological spaces) as well as of uniform limit spaces (and thus of uniform spaces). It turns out that it leads to a cartesian closed topological category and, in contrast to the situation for topological spaces, the local compact spaces are exactly the compactly generated spaces. Furthermore, a one-point Hausdorff compactification for noncompact locally compact Hausdorff convergence spaces is considered.¹     

PAIRWISE ALMOST COMPACT SPACES

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to investigate pairwise almost compact bitopological spaces. These spaces satisfy a bitopological compactness criterion which is strictly weaker than pairwise C-compactness and is independent of other well-known bitopological compactness notions. Pairwise continuous maps from such spaces to pairwise Hausdorff spaces are pairwise almost closed, the property is invariant under suitably continuous maps, is inherited by regularly closed subspaces and may be characterized in terms of certain covers as well as the adherent convergence of certain open filter bases. Some new natural bitopological separation axioms are introduced and in conjunction with pairwise almost compactness yield interesting results, including a sufficient condition for the bitopological complete separation of disjoint regularly closed sets by semi-continuous functions.     

ON CERTAIN FACTORIZATIONS OF FUNCTORS INTO THE CATEGORY OF QUASI-UNIFORM SPACES

This paper is motivated by the search for natural extensions of classical uniform space results to quasi-uniform spaces. As instances of such extensions we restate some theorems of P. Fletcher and W.F. Lindgren [Pacific J. Math. 43 (1971), 619–6311 on transitive quasi-uniformities and of S. Salbany [Thesis, Univ. Cape Town, 1971] on compactification and completion. The theorems as restated describe properties of certain right inverses of the functor which forgets the quasi-uniform structure and retains one induced topology (for Fletcher and Lindgren's work), respectively retains both induced topologies (for Salbany's work). Accordingly we investigate systematically the process by which the right inverses of the forgetful functors can be extended from the classical setting to one of these settings, and from one of these to the other.     

A GALOIS CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN CLOSURE SPACES AND RELATIONAL SYSTEMS

Abstract

For each ordinal α < 1 we define a Galois correspondence between the category of closure spaces (i.e. sets endowed with an extensive and monotone closure operation taking value θ at θ) and the category of α-ary mono-relational systems. These correspondences are studied.     

Straight nearness spaces

Straight spaces are spaces for which a continuous map defined on the space which is uniformly continuous on each set of a finite closed cover is then uniformly continuous on the whole space. Previously, straight spaces have been studied in the setting of metric spaces. In this paper, we present a study of straight spaces in the more general setting of nearness spaces. In a subcategory of nearness spaces somewhat more general than uniform spaces, we relate straightness to uniform local connectedness. We investigate category theoretic situations involving straight spaces. We prove that straightness is preserved by final sinks, in particular by sums and by quotients, and also by completions.     

PRECOMPACTNESS IN FUZZY UNIFORM SPACES

Abstract

The notion of a precompact fuzzy set in a fuzzy uniform space is defined and it is shown that this is a good extension of the standard notion. A theory of precompact fuzzy sets is developed using the previously defined notion of a Cauchy prefilter in a fuzzy uniform space and this theory generalises standard theory.     

Exponential objects and Cartesian closedness in the constructPrtop

We give an internal characterization of the exponential objects in the constructPrtop and investigate Cartesian closedness for coreflective or topological full subconstructs ofPrtop. If $ is the set {0} {1/n;n 1} endowed with the topology induced by the real line, we show that there is no full coreflective subconstruct ofPrtop containing $ and which is Cartesian closed. With regard to topological full subconstructs ofPrtop we give an example of a Cartesian closed one that is large enough to contain all topological Fréchet spaces and allT ₁ pretopological Fréchet spaces.Aspirant NFWO     

On the largest coreflective Cartesian closed subconstruct of Prtop

We show that the subconstruct Fing of Prtop, consisting of all finitely generated pretopological spaces, is the largest Cartesian closed coreflective subconstruct of Prtop. This implies that in any coreflective subconstruct of Prtop, exponential objects are finitely generated. Moreover, in any finitely productive, coreflective subconstruct, exponential objects are precisely those objects of the subconstruct that are finitely generated. We give a counterexample showing that without finite productivity the previous result does not hold.     

HAUSDORFF NEARNESS SPACES

Abstract

A categorical characterization of the category Haus of Hausdorft topological spaces within the category Top of topological spaces is given. A notion of a Hausdorff nearness space is then introduced and it is proved that the resulting subcategory Haus Near of the category Near of nearness spaces fulfills exactly the same characterization as derived for Haus in Top. Properties of Haus Near and relations to other important sub-categories of Near are studied.     

Dicompleteness and real dicompactness of ditopological texture spaces

The authors consider interrelations between the completeness of certain initial di-uniformities and the real dicompactness of completely biregular bi-T₂ nearly plain ditopological spaces. Completions and real dicompactifications of almost plain spaces are also considered.     

On the parallel between normality and extremal disconnectedness

Several familiar results about normal and extremally disconnected (classical or pointfree) spaces shape the idea that the two notions are somehow dual to each other and can therefore be studied in parallel. This paper investigates the source of this ‘duality’ and shows that each pair of parallel results can be framed by the ‘same’ proof. The key tools for this purpose are relative notions of normality, extremal disconnectedness, semicontinuity and continuity (with respect to a fixed class of complemented sublocales of the given locale) that bring and extend to locale theory a variety of well-known classical variants of normality and upper and lower semicontinuities in an illuminating unified manner. This approach allows us to unify under a single localic proof all classical insertion, as well as their corresponding extension results.     

THE FORGETFUL FUNCTOR Cont → Prox IS TOPOLOGICAL

Abstract

It is shown that the forgetful functor from the category of contiguity spaces to the category of generalized proximity spaces is topological, and that the right adjoint right inverse of this functor extends the inverse of the forgetful functor from the category of totally bounded uniform spaces to the category of proximity spaces.     

POWERS AND EXPONENTIAL OBJECTS IN INITIALLY STRUCTURED CATEGORIES AND APPLICATIONS TO CATEGORIES OF LIMIT SPACES

Abstract

Generalizing results of Herrlich and Nel, the author characterizes by means of smallest proper structures those objects X of an initially structured category for which X x—has a right adjoint, and describes the corresponding function spaces. It is shown that reduction to finally and initially dense classes is possible. The results are applied to epireflective subcategories of the category of limit spaces containing a finite non-indiscrete space, in particular to epireflective subcategories of TOP.     

Prefilter spaces and a precompletion of preuniform convergence spaces related to some well-known completions

In non-symmetric Convenient Topology the notion of pre-Cauchy filter is introduced and the construction of a precompletion of a preuniform convergence space is given from which Wyler's completion of a separated uniform limit space [O. Wyler, Ein Komplettierungsfunktor für uniforme Limesräume, Math. Nachr. 46 (1970) 1-12] as well as Weil's Hausdorff completion of a separated uniform space [A. Weil, Sur les Espaces à Structures Uniformes et sur la Topologie Générale, Hermann, Paris, 1937] can be derived (up to isomorphism). By the way, the construct PFil of prefilter spaces, i.e. of those preuniform convergence space which are ‘generated’ by their pre-Cauchy filters, is a strong topological universe filling in a gap in the theory of preuniform convergence spaces.     

Spaces from pieces II

In Parts II to IV, we are going to investigate simultaneous extensions of various topological structures (i.e. traces on several subsets at the same time are prescribed), also with separation axioms T₀, T₁, symmetry (in the sense of Part I, § 3), Riesz property, Lodato property. The following questions will be considered: (i) Under what conditions is there an extension? (ii) How can the finest extension be described? (iii) Is there a coarsest extension? (iv) Can we say more about extensions of two structures than in the general case? (v) Assume that certain subfamilies (e.g. the finite ones) can be extended; does the whole family have an extension, too? The general categorial results from Part I will be applied whenever possible (even when they are not really needed).     

COHOMOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF UNIFORM SPACES

Abstract

In this paper we obtain classification and extension theorems for uniform spaces, using the ?ech cohomology theory based on the finite uniform coverings, and study the associated cohomological dimension theory. In particular, we extend results for the cohomological dimension theory on compact Hausdorff spaces or compact metric spaces to those for our cohomological dimension theory on uniform spaces.     

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.