Free algebras and automata realizations in the language of categories
For non-empty topological spaces X and Y and arbitrary families ⊆ and we put =f ∈ : (∀ A ∈ )(f[A] ∈ . We examine which classes of functions ⊆ can be represented as . We are mainly interested in the case when is the class of all continuous functions from X into Y. We prove that for a non-discrete Tikhonov space X the class (X,ℝ) is not equal to for any ⊆ and ⊆ (ℝ). Thus, (X,ℝ) cannot be characterized by images of sets. We also show that none of the following classes of...
It is shown that if Ω = Q or Ω = ℓ 2, then there exists a functor of extension of maps between Z-sets in Ω to mappings of Ω into itself. This functor transforms homeomorphisms into homeomorphisms, thus giving a functorial setting to a well-known theorem of Anderson [Anderson R.D., On topological infinite deficiency, Michigan Math. J., 1967, 14, 365–383]. It also preserves convergence of sequences of mappings, both pointwise and uniform on compact sets, and supremum distances as well as uniform continuity,...
We introduce a new notion of covering projection E → X of a topological space X which reduces to the usual notion if X is locally connected. We use locally constant presheaves and covering reduced sieves to find a pro-groupoid π crs (X) and an induced category pro (π crs (X), Sets) such that for any topological space X the category of covering projections and transformations of X is equivalent to the category pro (π crs (X), Sets). We also prove that the latter category is equivalent to pro (π CX,...