A naive diagram-chasing approach to formalisation of tame topology

arXiv1807.06986MaRDI QIDQ6304367FDOQ6304367

Publication date: 18 July 2018

Abstract: We rewrite classical topological definitions using the category-theoretic notation of arrows and are led to concise reformulations in terms of simplicial categories and orthogonality of morphisms, which we hope might be of use in the formalisation of topology and in developing the tame topology of Grothendieck. Namely, we observe that topological and uniform spaces are simplicial objects in the same category, a category of filters, and that a number of elementary properties can be obtained by repeatedly passing to the left or right orthogonal (in the sense of Quillen model categories) starting from a simple class of morphisms, often a single typical (counter)example appearing implicitly in the definition. Examples include the notions of: compact, discrete, connected, and totally disconnected spaces, dense image, induced topology, and separation axioms, and, outside of topology, finite groups being nilpotent, solvable, torsion-free, p-groups, and prime-to-p groups; injective and projective modules; injective and surjective (homo)morphisms.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of classical theories (including reverse mathematics) (03B30) Mechanization of proofs and logical operations (03B35) Topological categories, foundations of homotopy theory (55U40)

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