The category of uniform spaces as a completion of the category of metric spaces

Jiří Adámek; Jan Reiterman

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae (1992)

  • Volume: 33, Issue: 4, page 689-693
  • ISSN: 0010-2628

Abstract

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A criterion for the existence of an initial completion of a concrete category 𝐊 universal w.r.tḟinite products and subobjects is presented. For 𝐊 = metric spaces and uniformly continuous maps this completion is the category of uniform spaces.

How to cite

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Adámek, Jiří, and Reiterman, Jan. "The category of uniform spaces as a completion of the category of metric spaces." Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae 33.4 (1992): 689-693. <http://eudml.org/doc/247411>.

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References

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