A generalisation of the functional approach to compactness

Epimorphisms, monomorphisms, special classes of morphisms, null morphisms (18A20) Topological spaces and generalizations (closure spaces, etc.) (54A05) Categorical methods in general topology (54B30) Special maps on topological spaces (open, closed, perfect, etc.) (54C10) Noncompact covering properties (paracompact, Lindelöf, etc.) (54D20) Compactness (54D30)

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This paper concerns a categorical theory of compactness, closed maps and certain related notions motivated by the well-known result: a space \(X\) is compact iff the projection \(\pi_Y:X\times Y\rightarrow Y\) maps closed sets in \(X\times Y\) to closed sets in \(Y\), for any space \(Y\). The author introduces a categorical notion of closure operator \(\alpha\) on a category \(\mathcal C\) with respect to \(\mathcal M\) a class of monomorphisms, and employs a functional approach to general topology. The author states that he pursues the following generalization of the above result: A space \(X\) is compact iff for any space Y, every \(\alpha\)-closed subspace \(M\subset X\times Y\) is projected to a \(\beta\)-closed subspace \(\pi_Y(M)\) of \(Y\), where \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are different closure operators. This permits the inclusion of ``asymmetric compactness properties into the categorical theory. The resulting theory is akin to that of \textit{E. Giuli} [General topology and applications, Proc. 5th Northeast Conf., New York/NY (USA) 1989, Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math. 134, 73--92 (1991; Zbl 0771.54010)], \textit{E. Giuli} and \textit{M. Hušek} [Boll. Unione Mat. Ital., VII. Ser., B 11, No.~3, 605--621 (1997; Zbl 0887.54012)], and \textit{N. Noble} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 140, 381--391 (1969; Zbl 0192.59701) and ibid. 160, 169--183 (1971; Zbl 0233.54004)].

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