Basic tools and mild continuities in relator spaces (Q1101992)

The author writes: ``Starting with the paper, we offer a simple, unified foundation to general topology and abstract analysis by using straightforward generalization of uniform spaces.... The importance of quasi-uniform spaces might become apparent only after the strikint discoveries of Krishnan, Császár and Pervin that each topological space is quasi-uniformizable. This suggests that topology and analysis should be rather based on generalized uniform spaces than on the topological ones in which several useful notions of metric spaces become meaningless.... We drop all the axioms of a uniform space except (I). Thus, we consider spaces (X,R) consisting of a set X and a nonvoid family R of reflexive relations on X. We call these spaces relator spaces and show how naturally and easily the fundamental notions and statements of topology and analysis can be extended to such spaces. The novelty of our treatment is largely due to an extensive and systematic use of nets and relations whose knowledge is the only prerequisite for reading this paper.'' The reader will find many informations on generalizations of uniform spaces. The list of references contains 98 papers. The following topics are considered: 1. Limits and adherences, 2. Closures and interiors, 3. Interpendence of basic tools, 4. Mild continuities, 5. Criteria for continuities.