Bornologies and metrically generated theories |
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Authors: | E Colebunders R Lowen |
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Institution: | a Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Departement of Mathematics (Vakgroep Wiskunde), Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium b University of Antwerp, Department of Mathematics and Computerscience, Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium |
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Abstract: | Bornologies axiomatize an abstract notion of bounded sets and are introduced as collections of subsets satisfying a number of consistency properties. Bornological spaces form a topological construct, the morphisms of which are those functions which preserve bounded sets. A typical example is a bornology generated by a metric, i.e. the collection of all bounded sets for that metric. In a recent paper E. Colebunders, R. Lowen, Metrically generated theories, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005) 1547-1556] the authors noted that many examples are known of natural functors describing the transition from categories of metric spaces to the “metrizable” objects in some given topological construct such that, in some natural way, the metrizable objects generate the whole construct. These constructs can be axiomatically described and are called metrically generated. The construct of bornological spaces is not metrically generated, but an important large subconstruct is. We also encounter other important examples of metrically generated constructs, the constructs of Lipschitz spaces, of uniform spaces and of completely regular spaces. In this paper, the unified setting of metrically generated theories is used to study the functorial relationship between these constructs and the one of bornological spaces. |
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Keywords: | 46A08 54A05 54E15 54E35 |
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