In Chapter 31, “The Compact-Open Topology”, it is asserted that “clearly” the third topology on (with and the real line) is finer than the second. The issue is more fully discussed here. In this post I discuss the concept of open tubes, particular subsets of the Cartesian product with a set and a metric space. Definition…
Chapter 31, “The Compact-Open Topology”, describes the compact-open topology, and goes on to compare it with two other topologies on in the case where . It asserts that “clearly” the second of these three is finer than the first, and the third finer than the second. This may well be “clear” intuitively, but is not…
Exercise 224 (Chapter 32, “Connectedness”): Let and be connected subsets of topological space such that intersects . Prove that is connected. Find an example to show that it is not enough to assume that intersects . Let us assume that and are open subsets of such that is empty and that . To show that…
Exercise 225 (Chapter 32, “Connectedness”): Prove the following generalization of theorem 40. Let ( in ) be a collection of connected subsets of topological space X, and let the equivalence relation on this collection of sets generated by if have just one equivalence class. Then is connected. For clarity, rather than a family I will…
Exercise 7 (Chapter 2, “Categories”): In the category of sets, the two morphisms ( and ) in a direct product are monomorphisms and the two morphisms in a direct sum are epimorphisms. Is this true in every category? There are two mistakes in this wording. The author has exchanged “monomorphisms” and “epimorphisms”. In a direct…
A lot of results concerning the direct product of two topological spaces and are trivial if you consider the usual particular construction of these entities. I find it more satisfying to derive them directly from the universal definitions. See also: the equivalent page on direct sums. In the following, we will always have and topological…
Exercise 185 (Chapter 28, “The category of topological spaces”): Prove that both the direct product and the direct sum of two Hausdorff topological spaces is Hausdorff. We will consider Hausdorff topological spaces and and their direct sum (in the first part) or product (in the second part) . We will proceed without reference to the…
A lot of results concerning the direct sum of two topological spaces and are trivial if you consider the usual particular construction of these entities. I find it more satisfying to derive them directly from the universal definitions. See also: the equivalent page on direct products. In the following, we will always have and topological…
Exercise 182 (Chapter 29, “The category of topological spaces”): Give a universal definition which leads to the introduction of the indiscrete topology on a set. On a set , the indiscrete topology is the unique topology such that for any set , any mapping is continuous. This isn’t really a universal definition. We have seen…
Chapter 22 on representations is, I feel, the worst written I have come upon up to now. I haven’t yet come to wrap my head around it. I certainly appreciate the desire to give a general definition of representations in category theory terms. This is how the author puts it: Let and be two categories….