On connectedness via closure operators (Q5957799)

The author enriches the investigation of categorical connectedness properties (i.e., of left- and right-constant subcategories) induced by categorical closure operators, by defining and investigating for each category \({\mathcal X}\), equipped with a closure operator \(c\), the subcategories of \(c\)-coarse and \(c\)-fine objects. Under mild conditions on \({\mathcal X}\), left- resp. right-constant subcategories turn out to be particular instances of subcategories consisting of coarse resp. fine objects. Moreover, at the morphism level, i.e., for sliced categories this new approach allows the simultaneous study of concordant and dissonant maps, and also of monotone and light maps.