Topological functors as total categories

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Abstract: A notion of central importance in categorical topology is that of topological functor. A faithful functor E -> B is called topological if it admits cartesian liftings of all (possibly large) families of arrows; the basic example is the forgetful functor Top -> Set. A topological functor E -> 1 is the same thing as a (large) complete preorder, and the general topological functor E -> B is intuitively thought of as a complete preorder relative to B. We make this intuition precise by considering an enrichment base Q_B such that Q_B-enriched categories are faithful functors into B, and show that, in this context, a faithful functor is topological if and only if it is total (=totally cocomplete) in the sense of Street--Walters. We also consider the MacNeille completion of a faithful functor to a topological one, first described by Herrlich, and show that it may be obtained as an instance of Isbell's generalised notion of MacNeille completion for enriched categories.









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