Gap, Excess and Bornological Convergence

Let be the nonempty subsets of a metric space 〈X, d〉. Some classical convergences in - such as convergence in Hausdorff distance, Attouch-Wets convergence and Wijsman convergence - have been shown to be compatible with the weak topology on induced by all gap and excess functionals with fixed left argument ranging in some bornology. Here we consider an arbitrary ideal of subsets of X and compare the gap and excess topology so generated with the corresponding convergence defined in terms of truncations by elements of the ideal. Dedicated to the memory of Flora Daniel.     

Normal Subgroups of B u Aut(Ω)

Aut(Ω) denotes the group of all order preserving permutations of the totally ordered set Ω, and if e ≤ u ∈ Aut(Ω), then B _u Aut(Ω) denotes the subgroup of all those permutations bounded pointwise by a power of u. It is known that if Aut(Ω) is highly transitive, then Aut(Ω) has just five normal subgroups. We show that if Aut(Ω) is highly transitive and u has just one interval of support, then B _u Aut(Ω) has normal subgroups, and there is a certain ideal of the lattice of subsets of (), the power set of the integers, such that the lattice of normal subgroups of every such Aut(Ω) is isomorphic to . To Bernhard Banaschewski on the occasion of his 80th birthday.     

Applications of the Category of Linear Complexes of Tilting Modules Associated with the Category

We use the category of linear complexes of tilting modules for the BGG category \mathfrakg\mathfrak{g}, to reprove in purely algebraic way several known results about obtained earlier by different authors using geometric methods. We also obtain several new results about the parabolic category .     

Depth Generated Simple Lie Algebras

A Lie module algebra for a Lie algebra L is an algebra and L-module A such that L acts on A by derivations. The depth Lie algebra of a Lie algebra L with Lie module algebra A acts on a corresponding depth Lie module algebra . This determines a depth functor from the category of Lie module algebra pairs to itself. Remarkably, this functor preserves central simplicity. It follows that the Lie algebras corresponding to faithful central simple Lie module algebra pairs (A,L) with A commutative are simple. Upon iteration at such (A,L), the Lie algebras are simple for all i ∈ ω. In particular, the (i ∈ ω) corresponding to central simple Jordan Lie algops (A,L) are simple Lie algebras. Presented by Don Passman.     

The Universal Covering of an Inverse Semigroup

We examine an inverse semigroup T in terms of the universal locally constant covering of its classifying topos . In particular, we prove that the fundamental group of coincides with the maximum group image of T. We explain the connection between E-unitary inverse semigroups and locally decidable toposes, characterize E-unitary inverse semigroups in terms of a kind of geometric morphism called a spread, characterize F-inverse semigroups, and interpret McAlister’s “P-theorem” in terms of the universal covering.     

On Attractors for Multivalued Semigroups Defined by Generalized Semiflows

In this paper we extend results from Semigroup Theory on existence and characterization of attractors in order to include multivalued semigroups T(t) defined by generalized semiflows . In particular we show that, if is continuous, possesses a Lyapunov function, and has a global attractor which is maximal compact invariant, then  =  W ^u (Z()), where Z() is the stationary solutions set and W ^u (Z()) is the unstable set of Z(). We introduce the -attractor concept which does not enjoy any uniformity on time of attraction and we prove, under suitable conditions, that the global -attractor is the set of asymptotic states described by Z(). Jacson Simsen is supported by CAPES-Brazil.     

Edge offset meshes in Laguerre geometry

A mesh with planar faces is called an edge offset (EO) mesh if there exists a combinatorially equivalent mesh such that corresponding edges of and lie on parallel lines of constant distance d. The edges emanating from a vertex of lie on a right circular cone. Viewing as set of these vertex cones, we show that the image of under any Laguerre transformation is again an EO mesh. As a generalization of this result, it is proved that the cyclographic mapping transforms any EO mesh in a hyperplane of Minkowksi 4-space into a pair of Euclidean EO meshes. This result leads to a derivation of EO meshes which are discrete versions of Laguerre minimal surfaces. Laguerre minimal EO meshes can also be constructed directly from certain pairs of Koebe meshes with help of a discrete Laguerre geometric counterpart of the classical Christoffel duality.     

\lambda-presentable Morphisms, Injectivity and (Weak) Factorization Systems

We show that in a locally -presentable category, every -injectivity class (i.e., the class of all the objects injective with respect to some class of -presentable morphisms) is a weakly reflective subcategory determined by a functorial weak factorization system cofibrantly generated by a class of -presentable morphisms. This was known for small-injectivity classes, and referred to as the ‘small object argument.’ An analogous result is obtained for orthogonality classes and factorization systems, where -filtered colimits play the role of the transfinite compositions in the injectivity case. -presentable morphisms are also used to organize and clarify some related results (and their proofs), in particular on the existence of enough injectives (resp. pure-injectives). Finally, locally -presentable categories are shown to be cellularly generated by the set of morphisms between -presentable objects.     

Symmetric inverse topological semigroups of finite rank ≤ <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>

We establish topological properties of the symmetric inverse topological semigroup of finite transformations of the rank ≤ n. We show that the topological inverse semigroup is algebraically h -closed in the class of topological inverse semigroups. Also we prove that a topological semigroup S with countably compact square S×S does not contain the semigroup for infinite cardinal λ and show that the Bohr compactification of an infinite topological symmetric inverse semigroup of finite transformations of the rank ≤ n is the trivial semigroup.     

Generalized Continuous Posets and a New Cartesian Closed Category

With every subset selection for posets, there is associated a certain ideal completion . As shown by Erné, such completions help to extend classical results on domains and similar structures in the absence of the required joins. Some results about –predistributive or –precontinuous posets and –continuous functions are summarized and supplemented. In particular, several central results on function spaces in domain theory are extended to the setting of productive closed subset selections. The category FSBP, in which objects are finitely separated and upper bounded posets and arrows are continuous functions between them, is shown to be cartesian closed. This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 10471035.     

Slices of Essentially Algebraic Categories

This paper is a contribution to the theory of functor slices of J. Sichler and V. Trnková. For every ordinal α we introduce a basket , prove that every essentially algebraic category of height α is a slice of , characterize small slices of and give a common generalization of known results about slices of the algebraic basket .      

\boldsymbol{\mathcal{Q}}-*-Categories

We consider the theory of categories enriched in an involutive quantaloid : the -*-categories. After giving an introduction to involutive quantaloids and nuclei, we use matrices with entries in to define -*-categories. Then we examine the relations between two kinds of morphisms between them, the functors and the *-maps, to provide a basis to study completeness properties. These results are used to provide a definition of pseudo-presheaves, presheaves and sheaves on involutive quantaloids in order to get a generalization of presheaves and sheaves on sites. Finally a characterization of these sheaves in terms of covers and compatible families is presented.      

Universality of Coproducts in Categories of Lax Algebras

Categories of lax -algebras are shown to have pullback-stable coproducts if preserves inverse images. The general result not only gives a common proof of this property in many topological categories but also shows that important topological categories, like the category of uniform spaces, are not presentable as a category of lax -algebras, with preserving inverse images. Moreover, we show that any such category of -algebras has a concrete, coproduct preserving functor into the category of topological spaces.     

Duals Invert

Monoidal objects (or pseudomonoids) in monoidal bicategories share many of the properties of the paradigmatic example: monoidal categories. The existence of (say, left) duals in a monoidal category leads to a dualization operation which was abstracted to the context of monoidal objects by Day et al. (Appl Categ Struct 11:229–260, 2003). We define a relative version of this called exact pairing for two arrows in a monoidal bicategory; when one of the arrows is an identity, the other is a dualization. In this context we supplement results of Day et al. (Appl Categ Struct 11:229–260, 2003) (and even correct one of them) and only assume the existence of biduals in the bicategory where necessary. We also abstract recent work of Day and Pastro (New York J Math 14:733–742, 2008) on Frobenius monoidal functors to the monoidal bicategory context. Our work began by focusing on the invertibility of components at dual objects of monoidal natural transformations between Frobenius monoidal functors. As an application of the abstraction, we recover a theorem of Walters and Wood (Theory Appl Categ 3:25–47, 2008) asserting that, for objects A and X in a cartesian bicategory , if A is Frobenius then the category Map(X,A) of left adjoint arrows is a groupoid. Also, the characterization in Walters and Wood (Theory Appl Categ 3:25–47, 2008) of left adjoint arrows between Frobenius objects of a cartesian bicategory is put into our current setting. In the same spirit, we show that when a monoidal object admits a dualization, its lax centre coincides with the centre defined in Street (Theory Appl Categ 13:184–190, 2004). Finally we look at the relationship between lax duals for objects and adjoints for arrows in a monoidal bicategory.     

Coherence for Product Monoids and their Actions

Let and be two monoids (algebras) in a monoidal category . Further let be a distributive law in the sense of [J. Beck, Lect. Notes Math., 80:119–140, 1969]; naturally yields a monoid . Consider a word in the symbols , , and . The first coherence theorem proved in this paper asserts that all morphisms coincide in , provided they arise as composites of morphisms which are -products of ’s ‘canonical’ structure morphisms, and of , , , , , , , and . Assume now that an object is endowed with both an -object structure , and an -object structure . Further assume that these two structures are compatible, in the sense that they naturally yield an -object . Let be a word in , , , and , which contains a single instance of , in the rightmost position. The second coherence theorem states that all morphisms coincide in , provided they arise as composites of morphisms which are -products of ’s ‘canonical’ structure morphisms, and of , , , , , , , , , and .     

The Orthogonal Subcategory Problem and the Small Object Argument

A classical result of P. Freyd and M. Kelly states that in “good” categories, the Orthogonal Subcategory Problem has a positive solution for all classes of morphisms whose members are, except possibly for a subset, epimorphisms. We prove that under the same assumptions on the base category and on , the generalization of the Small Object Argument of D. Quillen holds—that is, every object of the category has a cellular -injective weak reflection. In locally presentable categories, we prove a sharper result: a class of morphisms is called quasi-presentable if for some cardinal λ every member of the class is either λ-presentable or an epimorphism. Both the Orthogonal Subcategory Problem and the Small Object Argument are valid for quasi-presentable classes. Surprisingly, in locally ranked categories (used previously to generalize Quillen’s result), this is no longer true: we present a class of morphisms, all but one being epimorphisms, such that the orthogonality subcategory is not reflective and the injectivity subcategory Inj is not weakly reflective. We also prove that in locally presentable categories, the injectivity logic and the Orthogonality Logic are complete for all quasi-presentable classes. Financial support by Centre for Mathematics of University of Coimbra and by School of Technology of Viseu is acknowledged by the third author.     

Using as a Semantic Markup Format

One of the great problems of Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM) systems is to obtain access to a sufficiently large corpus of mathematical knowledge to allow the management/search/navigation techniques developed by the community to display their strength. Such systems usually expect the mathematical knowledge they operate on in the form of semantically enhanced documents, but mathematicians and publishers in Mathematics have heavily invested into the format and workflow. We analyze the current practice of semi-semantic markup in documents and extend it by a markup infrastructure that allows to embed semantic annotations into documents without changing their visual appearance. This collection of macro packages is called (semantic ) as it allows to markup documents semantically without leaving the time-tried workflow, essentially turning into an MKM format. At the heart of is a definition mechanism for semantic macros for mathematical objects and a non-standard scoping construct for them, which is oriented at the semantic dependency relation rather than the document structure. We evaluate the macro collection on a large case study: the course materials of a two-semester course in Computer Science was annotated semantically and converted to the OMDoc MKM format by Bruce Miller’s LaTeXML system.      

On Non-M-Cosingular Completely ⊕-Supplemented Modules

In this paper, it is shown that any non--cosingular -supplemented module is if and only if has the summand intersection property. Let be any module such that has a coclosure in . Then we prove that is (completely) -supplemented if and only if for some submodule of such that and both are (completely) -supplemented.     

Epi-topology and Epi-convergence for Archimedean Lattice-ordered Groups with Unit

is the category of archimedean -groups with distinguished weak order unit, with -group homomorphisms which preserve unit. This category includes all rings of continuous functions and all rings of measurable functions modulo null functions, with ring homomorphisms. The authors, and others, have studied previously the epimorphisms (right-cancellable morphisms) in . There is a rich theory. In this paper, we describe a topological approach to the analysis of these epimorphisms. On each – object, we define a topology and a convergence . These have the same closure operator, and this closure “captures epics” in the sense: a divisible subobject of is dense iff is epically embedded. The topology is , but only sometimes Hausdorff or an -group topology. The convergence is a Hausdorff -group convergence, but only sometimes topological. The associations of to , and to , are functorial. Dedicated to Bernhard Banaschewski for his 80th birthday.     

Universal Coefficient Theorem in Triangulated Categories

We consider a homology theory on a triangulated category with values in an abelian category. If the functor h reflects isomorphisms, is full and is such that for any object x in there is an object X in with an isomorphism between h(X) and x, we prove that is a hereditary abelian category, all idempotents in split and the kernel of h is a square zero ideal which as a bifunctor on is isomorphic to. The second author is a researcher from CONICET, Argentina.