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Convergence and quantale-enriched categories
Generalising Nachbin's theory of "topology and order", in this paper we
continue the study of quantale-enriched categories equipped with a compact
Hausdorff topology. We compare these -categorical compact
Hausdorff spaces with ultrafilter-quantale-enriched categories, and show that
the presence of a compact Hausdorff topology guarantees Cauchy completeness and
(suitably defined) codirected completeness of the underlying quantale enriched
category
Enriched Stone-type dualities
A common feature of many duality results is that the involved equivalence
functors are liftings of hom-functors into the two-element space resp. lattice.
Due to this fact, we can only expect dualities for categories cogenerated by
the two-element set with an appropriate structure. A prime example of such a
situation is Stone's duality theorem for Boolean algebras and Boolean
spaces,the latter being precisely those compact Hausdorff spaces which are
cogenerated by the two-element discrete space. In this paper we aim for a
systematic way of extending this duality theorem to categories including all
compact Hausdorff spaces. To achieve this goal, we combine duality theory and
quantale-enriched category theory. Our main idea is that, when passing from the
two-element discrete space to a cogenerator of the category of compact
Hausdorff spaces, all other involved structures should be substituted by
corresponding enriched versions. Accordingly, we work with the unit interval
and present duality theory for ordered and metric compact Hausdorff
spaces and (suitably defined) finitely cocomplete categories enriched in
Enriched Stone-type dualities
A common feature of many duality results is that the involved equivalence functors are liftings of hom-functors into the two-element space resp. lattice. Due to this fact, we can only expect dualities for categories cogenerated by the two-element set with an appropriate structure. A prime example of such a situation is Stone's duality theorem for Boolean algebras and Boolean spaces, the latter being precisely those compact Hausdorff spaces which are cogenerated by the two-element discrete space. In this paper we aim for a systematic way of extending this duality theorem to categories including all compact Hausdorff spaces. To achieve this goal, we combine duality theory and quantale-enriched category theory. Our main idea is that, when passing from the two-element discrete space to a cogenerator of the category of compact Hausdorff spaces, all other involved structures should be substituted by corresponding enriched versions. Accordingly, we work with the unit interval [0, 1] and present duality theory for ordered and metric compact Hausdorff spaces and (suitably defined) finitely cocomplete categories enriched in [0, 1].publishe
Approximation in quantale-enriched categories
Our work is a fundamental study of the notion of approximation in
V-categories and in (U,V)-categories, for a quantale V and the ultrafilter
monad U. We introduce auxiliary, approximating and Scott-continuous
distributors, the way-below distributor, and continuity of V- and
(U,V)-categories. We fully characterize continuous V-categories (resp.
(U,V)-categories) among all cocomplete V-categories (resp. (U,V)-categories) in
the same ways as continuous domains are characterized among all dcpos. By
varying the choice of the quantale V and the notion of ideals, and by further
allowing the ultrafilter monad to act on the quantale, we obtain a flexible
theory of continuity that applies to partial orders and to metric and
topological spaces. We demonstrate on examples that our theory unifies some
major approaches to quantitative domain theory.Comment: 17 page
Quantitative Foundations for Resource Theories
Considering resource usage is a powerful insight in the analysis of many phenomena in the sciences. Much of the current research on these resource theories focuses on the analysis of specific resources such quantum entanglement, purity, randomness or asymmetry. However, the mathematical foundations of resource theories are at a much earlier stage, and there has been no satisfactory account of quantitative aspects such as costs, rates or probabilities.
We present a categorical foundation for quantitative resource theories, derived from enriched category theory. Our approach is compositional, with rich algebraic structure facilitating calculations. The resulting theory is parameterized, both in the quantities under consideration, for example costs or probabilities, and in the structural features of the resources such as whether they can be freely copied or deleted. We also achieve a clear separation of concerns between the resource conversions that are freely available, and the costly resources that are typically the object of study. By using an abstract categorical approach, our framework is naturally open to extension. We provide many examples throughout, emphasising the resource theoretic intuitions for each of the mathematical objects under consideration
Topology from enrichment: the curious case of partial metrics
For any small quantaloid \Q, there is a new quantaloid \D(\Q) of
diagonals in \Q. If \Q is divisible then so is \D(\Q) (and vice versa),
and then it is particularly interesting to compare categories enriched in \Q
with categories enriched in \D(\Q). Taking Lawvere's quantale of extended
positive real numbers as base quantale, \Q-categories are generalised metric
spaces, and \D(\Q)-categories are generalised partial metric spaces, i.e.\
metric spaces in which self-distance need not be zero and with a suitably
modified triangular inequality. We show how every small quantaloid-enriched
category has a canonical closure operator on its set of objects: this makes for
a functor from quantaloid-enriched categories to closure spaces. Under mild
necessary-and-sufficient conditions on the base quantaloid, this functor lands
in the category of topological spaces; and an involutive quantaloid is
Cauchy-bilateral (a property discovered earlier in the context of distributive
laws) if and only if the closure on any enriched category is identical to the
closure on its symmetrisation. As this now applies to metric spaces and partial
metric spaces alike, we demonstrate how these general categorical constructions
produce the "correct" definitions of convergence and Cauchyness of sequences in
generalised partial metric spaces. Finally we describe the Cauchy-completion,
the Hausdorff contruction and exponentiability of a partial metric space, again
by application of general quantaloid-enriched category theory.Comment: Apart from some minor corrections, this second version contains a
revised section on Cauchy sequences in a partial metric spac
Hyperspace of a fuzzy quasi-uniform space
[EN] The aim of this paper is to present a fuzzy counterpart method of constructing the Hausdorff quasi-uniformity of a crisp quasi-uniformity. This process, based on previous works due to Morsi [25] and Georgescu [9], allows to extend probabilistic and Hutton [0, 1]-quasi-uniformities on a set X to its power set. In this way, we obtain an endofunctor for each one of the categories of those objects. We will demonstrate the commutativity of these endofunctors with Lowen and Katsaras' functors. Furthermore, we will prove the compatibility of our construction with the Hausdorff fuzzy quasi-pseudometric introduced in [33].The second author is supported by the grant MTM2015-64373-P (MINECO/FEDER, UE). The authors are grateful to the reviewers for useful comments which have improved the first version of the paperPedraza Aguilera, T.; Rodríguez López, J. (2020). Hyperspace of a fuzzy quasi-uniform space. Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems. 17(2):97-114. https://doi.org/10.22111/IJFS.2020.5222S9711417