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QRB, QFS, and stably compact, locally finitary spaces

From time to time, we happen to discover that several distinct notions are in fact the same, and this is exactly what happened in 2014, in two papers that appeared about at the same time, with similar discoveries. One is … Continue reading

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Season’s Greetings

I hope you’ve had a Merry Christmas, and wish you a Happy New Year 2015.  To renew with an old habit, I’ve produced a new crosswords puzzle on the occasion (#14).  Sorry, it does not have anything particular related to … Continue reading

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Quasi-continuous dcpos and locally finitary compact spaces

Although I am trying to post about every month, I have not posted anything for two months.  My first idea was to talk about synthetic topology, after I read some papers by Weng Kin Ho and by Martín Hötzel Escardó. … Continue reading

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Filter Spaces and Equilogical Spaces

Both filter spaces and equilogical spaces form Cartesian-closed categories that contain Top as a full subcategory.  Is there any connection between them?  Very much so, as found by Reinhold Heckmann in 1998, following Martin Hyland (1977).  Read the full post.

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Equilogical spaces

A bit more than a month ago, I’ve been reminded of a beautiful construction of yet another Cartesian-closed category of spaces, generalizing the topological spaces: the equilogical spaces of Bauer, Birkedal, and Scott.  Simply put, equilogical spaces are formal (not … Continue reading

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Filters V: Wallman compactifications

As promised, let us talk about Wallman compactifications.  They extend the construction of the Stone-Čech compactification ßX, beyond discrete spaces, to all T4 spaces.  The construction is very similar to what we have seen in Filters IV.  But brace yourself … Continue reading

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Filters IV: compactifications

While we’ve got a good theme, let’s hang on to it.  Yes, of course: filters.  It turns out that you can build compactifications using ultrafilters, in special cases.  See the full post.  I’ll talk about more general constructions later.

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Saint Patrick’s Day 2014

Not that I’m particulary Irish, but here’s a crossword puzzle for Saint Patrick’s Day.  (Also playable online.)  Meant to be the shape of a cloverleaf… Don’t omit the other 12 puzzles, too.

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Filters, part III: pretopologies

While listening to some talks at the special session on categorical topology last Saturday, I realized that I had said something wrong at the end of part II: the filter spaces satisfying the property that any intersection of filters that … Continue reading

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Joint Mathematics Meetings

I’m currently at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore, MD, USA.  This is a huge conference.  The program alone is a 250+ page booklet! My main purpose there is to participate in the special session on categorical topology on Saturday, … Continue reading

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