ALMOST 2-FULLY NORMAL,PAIRWISE PARACOMPACT AND COMPLETE DEVELOPABLE BISPACES

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Dedicated to Professor Sergio Salbany on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

We introduce and study the notion of an almost 2-fully normal bispace. In particular, we prove that a bispace is quasi-pseudometrizable if and only if it is almost 2-fully normal and pairwise developable. We obtain conditions under which an almost 2-fully normal bispace is subquasi-metrizable and show that the fine quasi-uniformity of any subquasi-metrizable topological space is bicomplete. We prove that every pairwise paracompact bispace (in the sense of Romaguera and Marin, 1988) is almost 2-fully normal and that the finest quasi-uniformity of any 2-Hausdorff pairwise paracompact bispace is bicomplete. We also characterize pairwise paracompactness in terms of a property of σ-Lebesgue type of the finest quasi-uniformity. Finally, we use Salbany's compactification of pairwise Tychonoff bispaces to characterize those bispaces that admit a bicomplete pair development and deduce that an interesting example of R. Fox of a non-quasi-metrizable pairwise stratifiable pairwise developable bispace admits a bicomplete pair development.     

SPACES WITH WALLMAN EQUIVALENT INTERMEDIATE SPACES

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If every infinite closed subset of the Wallman compactification, WX, of a space X must contain at least one element of X, then for any space Y intermediate between X and WX the Wallman compactification WY is homeomorphic to WX. This extends a property which characterizes normality inducing spaces. In the case where X is not normal, however, this is not a characterization, since there are nonnormal spaces for which all intermediate spaces are Wallman equivalent, but have infinite closed subsets contained in WX/X.     

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.     

COHOMOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF UNIFORM SPACES

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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.     

HOMOLOGY AND COHOMOLOGY FOR MEROTOPIC AND NEARNESS SPACES

It is shown that the Alexander cohomology groups for merotopic spaces satisfy certain variants of the Eilenberg—Steenrod axioms for a cohomology theory. Furthermore, for a nearness space, the homology and cohomology groups coincide with the corresponding groups of its completion.     

SYNTOPOFORMIC SPACES (SYNTOPOGENOUS LIMIT SPACES)

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Császár generalized the uniform spaces, the proximity spaces and the topological spaces to syntopogenous spaces. Cook and Fischer generalized the uniform spaces to uniform limit spaces. Finally Marny generalized the proximity spaces to proximal limit spaces. Analogously we generalize the syntopogenous spaces to syntopoformic spaces (syntopogenous limit spaces). These spaces include all the above mentioned in a suitable sense. We extend some of the well-known results of compactness and completeness to syntopoformic spaces.     

WALLMAN REMAINDERS OF REGULAR SPACES

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This paper shows that the only Hausdorff spaces which can occur as Wallman remainders of Regular spaces are themselves completely regular. This is in contrast to the previously known result that any T1 space can occur as a Wallman remainder.     

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.     

HAUSDORFF NEARNESS SPACES

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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.     

Weak bases and quasi-pseudo-metrization of bispaces

In this paper it is obtained a quasi-pseudo-metrization theorem which provides a certain unification in the treatment of the biquasi-metrization problem when it is considered via sequences of neighborhoods of each point satisfying certain properties. In particular, the well-known theorems of Fox, Raghavan, Künzi, and Raghavan and Reilly are deduced from our results. We also obtain some quasi-metrization theorems in terms of pairwise locally symmetric bifunctions.     

A counterexample for some problem for de Groot dual iterations

We prove that there is a topology τ that does not arise as a de Groot dual topology such that τd=τddd≠τdd?τ (i.e. the answer for Question 3.9 [M.M. Kovár, At most 4 topologies can arise from iterating the de Groot dual, Topology Appl. 130 (2003) 175-182] is negative).     

SUPERCATEGORIES OF THE CATEGORY OF NEARNESS SPACES

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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

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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     

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.     

Weaker forms of the Menger property in bitopological spaces

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In this paper we continue previous investigations on the weaker forms of the Menger property in bitopological spaces. We introduce weakly Menger property and study some topological properties of almost and weakly Menger bitopological spaces. We also consider the almost Hurewicz spaces in a bitopological context.     

REAL COMPACTIFICATIONS THROUGH ZERO-SET SPACES

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The Alexandroff (= zero-set) spaces were introduced in [l] as the “completely normal spaces”, and have been studied in a number of more recent papers. In this paper we unify the theory of Wallman realcompactifications via the Alexandroff bases and introduce the realcompactfine Alexandroff spaces as particularly relevant to their investigation. These latter spaces are defined analogously to the A-c uniform spaces which are based on a construction of A.W. Hager [25].     

BIFRAMES AND BISPACES

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The concept of a biframe is introduced. Then the known dual adjunction between topological spaces and frames (i.e. local lattices) is extended to one between bispaces (i.e. bitopological spaces) and biframes. The largest duality contained in this dual adjunction defines the sober bispaces, which are also characterized in terms of the sober spaces. The topological and the frame-theoretic concepts of regularity, complete regularity and compactness are extended to bispaces and biframes respectively. For the bispaces these concepts are found to coincide with those introduced earlier by J.C. Kelly, E.P. Lane, S. Salbany and others. The Stone-?ech compactification (compact regular coreflection) of a biframe is constructed without the Axiom of Choice.     

PROXIMAL LIMIT SPACES

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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.