The aim of this paper is to construct functors associated with topological groups as well as to investigate these functors. More precisely, we prove that for a given topological groups G there always exists a contravariant functor F (G) from the homotopy category of pointed topological spaces and homotopy classes of base point preserving continuous maps to the category of groups and homomorphis...

Topological cospans and their concatenation, by pushout, appear in the theories of tangles, ribbons, cobordisms, etc. Various algebraic invariants have been introduced for their study, which it would be interesting to link with the standard tools of Algebraic Topology, (co)homotopy and (co)homology functors. Here we introduce collarable (and collared) cospans between topological spaces. They ge...

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...

1. INTRODUCTION. The emergence of category theory, introduced by S. Eilen-berg and S. Mac Lane in the 1940s (cf. [2]), was among the most important mathematical developments of the twentieth century. The profound impact of the theory continues to this day, and categorical methods are currently used, for example, in algebra, geometry, topology, mathematical physics, logic, and theoretical comput...

Consider a fibration sequence F → E → B of topological spaces which is preserved as such by some functor L, so that LF → LE → LB is again a fibration sequence. Pull the fibration back along an arbitrary map X → B into the base space. Does the pullback fibration enjoy the same property? For most functors this is not to be expected, and we concentrate mostly on homotopical localization functors. ...

Consider L being a continuous lattice, two functors from the category of convex spaces (denoted by CS) to the category of stratified L-convex spaces (denoted by SL-CS) are defined. The first functor enables us to prove that the category CS can be embedded in the category SL-CS as a reflective subcategory. The second functor enables us to prove that the category CS can be embedded in the categor...

iv Contents Preface vii Chapter 1. Model categories 1 1.1. The definition of a model category 2 1.2. The homotopy category 7 1.3. Quillen functors and derived functors 13 1.3.1. Quillen functors 13 1.3.2. Derived functors and naturality 16 1.3.3. Quillen equivalences 19 1.4. 2-categories and pseudo-2-functors 22 Chapter 2. Examples 27 2.1. Cofibrantly generated model categories 28 2.1.1. Ordina...

In this paper we develop the theory of topological categories over a base category, that is, a theory of topological functors. Our notion of topo-logical functor is similar to (but not the same) the existing notions in the literature (see [2] 7.3), and it aims at the same examples. In our sense, a (pre) topological functor is a functor that creates cartesian families. A topological functor is, ...