Notions and techniques of enriched category theory can be used to study topological structures, like metric spaces, topological spaces and approach spaces, in the context of topological theories. Recently in [D. Hofmann, Injective spaces via adjunction, arXiv:math.CT/0804.0326] the construction of a Yoneda embedding allowed to identify injectivity of spaces as cocompleteness and to show monadic...

In this talk we give a brief review of the algebraic structure behind the open and closed topological strings and D-branes and emphasize the role of tensor category and the Frobenius algebra. Also, we speculate on the possibility of generalizing the topological strings and the D-branes through the subfactor theory.

1.3. De nition. ABSTRACT. We apply enriched category theory to study Cauchy completeness in continuity spaces. Our main result is the equivalence in continuity spaces of the category theoretic and the uniform notions of Cauchy completeness. This theorem, which generalizes a result of Lawvere for quasi-metric spaces, makes a natural connection between the category-theoretic and topological aspec...

‎this contribution mainly focuses on some aspects of lipschitz groups‎, ‎i.e.‎, ‎metrizable groups with lipschitz multiplication and inversion map‎. ‎in the main result it is proved that metric groups‎, ‎with a translation-invariant metric‎, ‎may be characterized as particular group objects in the category of metric spaces and lipschitz maps‎. ‎moreover‎, ‎up to an adjustment of the metric‎, ‎a...

Let ~ C be a category whose objects are semigroups with topology and morphisms are closed semigroup relations, in particular, continuous homomorphisms. An object X of the category ~ C is called ~ C-closed if for each morphism Φ ⊂ X×Y in the category ~ C the image Φ(X) = {y ∈ Y : ∃x ∈ X (x, y) ∈ Φ} is closed in Y. In the paper we survey existing and new results on topological groups, which are ~...

In [1], a new approach was suggested for quantising space-time, or space. This involved developing a procedure for quantising a system whose configuration space—or history-theory analogue—is the set of objects in a (small) category Q. In the present paper, we show how this theory can be applied to the special case when Q is a category of sets. This includes the physically important examples whe...

In this thesis, we use string diagrams to study the theory of Hopf algebras in the context of Categorical Quantum Mechanics. First, we treat the theory of representations of a Hopf algebra diagrammatically. The category of representations of a quasitriangular Hopf algebra Rep(H) is a braided tensor category and can be understood as a process theory of particles in Topological Quantum theory. We...

This work solves the problem of elaborating Ganea and Whitehead definitions for the tangential category of a foliated manifold. We develop these two notions in the category S-Top of stratified spaces, that are topological spaces endowed with a partition and compare them to a third invariant defined by using open sets. More precisely, these definitions apply to an element (X,F) of S-Top together...

The paper is about the comparison between (apparently) different cartesian closed extensions of the category of topological spaces. Since topological spaces do not in general allow formation of function spaces, the problem of determining suitable categories with such a property—and nicely related to that of topological spaces—was studied from many different perspectives: general topology, funct...