This dissertation provides an introduction to the ideas employed in topological quantum field theory. We illustrate how the field began by considering knot invariants of three-manifolds and demonstrating the consequences of defining such a theory axiomatically. The ideas of category theory are introduced and we show that what we are actually concerned with are symmetric monoidal functors from t...

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a concept of L-fuzzifying topological vector spaces (here L is a completely distributive lattice) and study some of their basic properties. Also, a characterization of such spaces in terms of the corresponding L-fuzzifying neighborhood structure of the zero element is given. Finally, the conclusion that the category of L-fuzzifying topological vect...

Our work over the past years shows that not only the collection of (for instance) all topological spaces gives rise to a category, but also each topological space can be seen individually as a category by interpreting the convergence relation x −→ x between ultrafilters and points of a topological space X as arrows in X. Naturally, this point of view opens the door to the use of concepts and id...

Keywords: Double fuzzy topology Double neighborhood systems Double fuzzy preproximity Double fuzzy closure space a b s t r a c t In this paper, we introduce the notions of double neighborhood systems and double fuzzy preproximity in double fuzzy topological spaces. We used double neighborhoods to study the initial structure of double fuzzy topological spaces, and the joins between them and the ...

The construction of free R-modules over a cartesian closed topological category X is detailed (where R is a ring object in X), and it is shown that the insertion of generators is an embedding. This result extends the well-known construction of free groups, and more generally of free algebras over a cartesian closed topological category.

In this paper we introduce a new definition of a lattice fuzzy topology which is a generalization of Lowen’s fuzzy topology and show that the category of Lowen’s fuzzy topological spaces is a bireflective full subcategory of the category of lattice fuzzy topological spaces.