Alexandroff topologies and monoid actions (Q2178808)

In this paper, the statement ``Any Alexandroff topology may be obtained through a monoid action'' is provided. Several topological properties for Alexandroff spaces bearing in mind specific examples of monoid actions are introduced. A specific notion of dependence based on the union of subsets is introduced for an Alexandroff space \(X\) with associated topological closure operator \(\sigma \). The authors study the family \(\mathcal{A}_{\sigma ,X}\) of closed subsets \(Y\) of \(X\) such that, for any \(y_{1}\), \(y_{2}\in Y\), there exists a third element \(y\in Y\) whose closure contains both \(y_{1}\) and \(y_{2}\). A decomposition theorem regarding an Alexandroff space as the union (not necessarily disjoint) of a pair of closed subsets characterized by such a dependence is provided.