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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion .cspell.json
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"FiltVect",
"networkidle",
"devlog",
"cech"
"cech",
"Unif"
],
"words": [
"abelian",
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions database/data/categories/Meas.yaml
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related:
- Top
- Unif

comments:
- The thread <a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/5024471/">MSE/5024471</a> asks for the finitely presentable objects of this category.
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions database/data/categories/Met_c.yaml
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- Met
- Met_oo
- Top
- Unif

satisfied_properties:
- property: locally small
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30 changes: 16 additions & 14 deletions database/data/categories/Top.yaml
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- Met_c
- Top_*
- Man
- Unif
- Meas

satisfied_properties:
- property: locally small
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- property: well-copowered
proof: This is clear from the classification of epimorphisms as surjective continuous maps.

- property: filtered-colimit-stable monomorphisms
proof: This follows from Lemma 2 <a href="/content/subcategories">here</a> applied to the forgetful functor to $\Set$.

- property: semi-strongly connected
proof: Every non-empty space is weakly terminal (by using constant maps).

- property: generator
proof: The one-point space is a generator since it represents the forgetful functor $\Top \to \Set$.

- property: infinitary extensive
proof: 'This can be deduced from the infinitary extensivity of <a href="/category/Set">$\Set$</a> as follows. We already know that coproducts and pullbacks exist, and these are preserved by the forgetful functor to $\Set$. More concretely, coproducts are disjoint unions of the underlying sets whose open subsets are unions of open subsets of the summands. Since coproducts are disjoint in $\Set$ and the empty set has a unique topology, it follows immediately that coproducts are disjoint in $\Top$ as well. It remains to show that coproducts are stable under pullbacks. Let $(X_i)_{i \in I}$ be a family of topological spaces and let $f : T \to \coprod_{i \in I} X_i$ be a continuous map. Consider the pullbacks $T_i := f^*(X_i)$. These are just the preimages of $X_i$ under $f$, with the topology induced from $T$. Since coproducts in $\Set$ are stable under pullbacks, the canonical continuous map $\coprod_{i \in I} T_i \to T$ is bijective. It remains to show that it is an open map. By the concrete description of open subsets in the disjoint union, it suffices to prove that each $T_i \to T$ is an open map. But this is the inclusion of a subspace, which is open since $X_i$ is open in $\coprod_{i \in I} X_i$.'
- property: extremal cogenerator
proof: >-
Using the dual of Lemma 9 <a href="/content/subcategories">here</a> with $U : \Top \to \Set$ the forgetful functor whose right adjoint is the indiscrete topology functor, and the fact that the two-element set is a cogenerator of <a href="/category/Set">$\Set$</a>, we see that the indiscrete two-point space is a cogenerator of $\Top$. We claim that adding the Sierpinski space $S$ makes an extremal cogenerating set. To see this, let $f : X \to Y$ be a continuous function. First, $f$ inducing a bijection of maps to the indiscrete two-point space implies that $f$ is bijective on the underlying sets. Then, $f$ inducing a bijection of maps to the Sierpinski space implies that $f^* : \Open(Y) \to \Open(X)$ is also a bijection. We can then conclude that $f$ is open and therefore a homeomorphism: if $U \subseteq X$ is open, then there is an open subset $V \subseteq Y$ such that $f^*(V) = U$. Therefore, $f_*(U) = f_*(f^*(V)) = V$ is open, where in the last equality we use the fact that $f$ is surjective.

Now, by <a href="/content/generator_construction">this result</a>, we conclude that the product of the indiscrete two-point space and the Sierpinski space is an extremal cogenerator of $\Top$.

- property: regular subobject classifier
proof: The indiscrete two-point space $\{0,1\}$ is a regular subobject classifier since continuous maps $X \to \{0,1\}$ correspond to subsets of $X$.

- property: infinitary extensive
proof: 'This can be deduced from the infinitary extensivity of <a href="/category/Set">$\Set$</a> as follows. We already know that coproducts and pullbacks exist, and these are preserved by the forgetful functor to $\Set$. More concretely, coproducts are disjoint unions of the underlying sets whose open subsets are unions of open subsets of the summands. Since coproducts are disjoint in $\Set$ and the empty set has a unique topology, it follows immediately that coproducts are disjoint in $\Top$ as well. It remains to show that coproducts are stable under pullbacks. Let $(X_i)_{i \in I}$ be a family of topological spaces and let $f : T \to \coprod_{i \in I} X_i$ be a continuous map. Consider the pullbacks $T_i := f^*(X_i)$. These are just the preimages of $X_i$ under $f$, with the topology induced from $T$. Since coproducts in $\Set$ are stable under pullbacks, the canonical continuous map $\coprod_{i \in I} T_i \to T$ is bijective. It remains to show that it is an open map. By the concrete description of open subsets in the disjoint union, it suffices to prove that each $T_i \to T$ is an open map. But this is the inclusion of a subspace, which is open since $X_i$ is open in $\coprod_{i \in I} X_i$.'

- property: coregular
proof: The category has all limits and colimits, and the regular monomorphisms are the subspace inclusions. Thus, it suffices to prove that subspace inclusions are stable under pushouts. For a proof see e.g. Lemma 3.6 at the <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/subspace+topology#pushout" target="_blank">nLab</a>. Another proof can be found in <a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/2044509">MSE/2016945</a>.

- property: filtered-colimit-stable monomorphisms
proof: This follows from Lemma 2 <a href="/content/subcategories">here</a> applied to the forgetful functor to $\Set$.

- property: extremal cogenerator
proof: >-
Using the dual of Lemma 9 <a href="/content/subcategories">here</a> with $U : \Top \to \Set$ the forgetful functor whose right adjoint is the indiscrete topology functor, and the fact that the two-element set is a cogenerator of <a href="/category/Set">$\Set$</a>, we see that the indiscrete two-point space is a cogenerator of $\Top$. We claim that adding the Sierpinski space $S$ makes an extremal cogenerating set. To see this, let $f : X \to Y$ be a continuous function. First, $f$ inducing a bijection of maps to the indiscrete two-point space implies that $f$ is bijective on the underlying sets. Then, $f$ inducing a bijection of maps to the Sierpinski space implies that $f^* : \Open(Y) \to \Open(X)$ is also a bijection. We can then conclude that $f$ is open and therefore a homeomorphism: if $U \subseteq X$ is open, then there is an open subset $V \subseteq Y$ such that $f^*(V) = U$. Therefore, $f_*(U) = f_*(f^*(V)) = V$ is open, where in the last equality we use the fact that $f$ is surjective.

Now, by <a href="/content/generator_construction">this result</a>, we conclude that the product of the indiscrete two-point space and the Sierpinski space is an extremal cogenerator of $\Top$.

unsatisfied_properties:
- property: skeletal
proof: This is trivial.
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proof: If $X$ is a set, consider the discrete space $X_d$ on $X$ and the indiscrete space $X_i$ on $X$. The identity map $X \to X$ lifts to a continuous map $X_d \to X_i$, which is bijective and therefore both a mono- and an epimorphism, but it is not an isomorphism unless $X$ has at most one element.
check_redundancy: false

- property: cofiltered-limit-stable epimorphisms
proof: We already know that <a href="/category/Set">$\Set$</a> does not have this property. Now apply the contrapositive of the dual of Lemma 2 <a href="/content/subcategories">here</a> to the functor $\Set \to \Top$ which equips a set with the indiscrete topology.

- property: cartesian filtered colimits
proof: 'The functor $\IQ \times - : \Top \to \Top$ does not preserve sequential colimits, see <a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1255678" target="_blank">MSE/1255678</a>.'

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- property: co-Malcev
proof: 'See <a href="https://mathoverflow.net/questions/509548" target="_blank">MO/509548</a>. We can also phrase the proof as follows: Consider the forgetful functor $U : \Top \to \Set$ and the relation $R \subseteq U^2$ defined by $R(X) \coloneqq \{(x,y) \in U(X)^2 : x \in \overline{\{y\}} \}$. Both are representable: $U$ by the singleton and $R$ by the Sierpinski space. It is clear that $R$ is reflexive, but not symmetric.'

- property: cofiltered-limit-stable epimorphisms
proof: We already know that <a href="/category/Set">$\Set$</a> does not have this property. Now apply the contrapositive of the dual of Lemma 2 <a href="/content/subcategories">here</a> to the functor $\Set \to \Top$ which equips a set with the indiscrete topology.

- property: effective cocongruences
proof: 'Consider the indiscrete topological space $I$ on two points. This represents the functor which takes a topological space $X$ to the pairs of indistinguishable points of $X$. Therefore, we get a cocongruence $1 \rightrightarrows I$, where the maps are the two possible functions. However, this cannot be effective: if we have $h : Z\to 1$ which equalizes the two maps, then $Z$ must be empty. But that means the cokernel pair of $h$ is the discrete space on two points.'

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