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Injective Spaces via Adjunction

Category Theory 2008-04-03 v1 General Topology

Abstract

Our work over the past years shows that not only the collection of (for instance) all topological spaces gives rise to a category, but also each topological space can be seen individually as a category by interpreting the convergence relation xx\mathfrak{x}\to x between ultrafilters and points of a topological space XX as arrows in XX. Naturally, this point of view opens the door to the use of concepts and ideas from (enriched) Category Theory for the investigation of (for instance) topological spaces. In this paper we study cocompleteness, adjoint functors and Kan extensions in the context of topological theories. We show that the cocomplete spaces are precisely the injective spaces, and they are algebras for a suitable monad on \SET\SET. This way we obtain enriched versions of known results about injective topological spaces and continuous lattices.

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@article{arxiv.0804.0326,
  title  = {Injective Spaces via Adjunction},
  author = {Dirk Hofmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.0326},
  year   = {2008}
}

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24 pages

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