Lawvere completeness in Topology
Category Theory
2007-05-23 v1 General Topology
Abstract
It is known since 1973 that Lawvere's notion of (Cauchy-)complete enriched category is meaningful for metric spaces: it captures exactly Cauchy-complete metric spaces. In this paper we introduce the corresponding notion of Lawvere completeness for -categories and show that it has an interesting meaning for topological spaces and quasi-uniform spaces: for the former ones means weak sobriety while for the latter means Cauchy completeness. Further, we show that has a canonical -category structure which plays a key role: it is Lawvere-complete under reasonable conditions on the setting; permits us to define a Yoneda embedding in the realm of -categories.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0704.3976,
title = {Lawvere completeness in Topology},
author = {Maria Manuel Clementino and Dirk Hofmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.3976},
year = {2007}
}