Injective Spaces via Adjunction
Dirk Hofmann
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Dirk Hofmann
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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 $\mathfrak{x}\to x$ between ultrafilters and points of a topological space $X$ as arrows in $X$. 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 $\SET$. This way we obtain enriched versions of known results about injective topological spaces and continuous lattices.
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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 $\mathfrak{x}\to x$ between ultrafilters and points of a topological space $X$ as arrows in $X$. 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 $\SET$. This way we obtain enriched versions of known results about injective topological spaces and continuous lattices.
Key concepts: Monad (category theory), Category of topological spaces, Topological space, Injective function, Mathematics, Functor, Topological tensor product, Topological vector space