Categorical Foundations: Special Topics in Order, Topology, Algebra, and Sheaf Theory, Volume 97

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Maria Cristina Pedicchio, Walter Tholen
Cambridge University Press, 2004 - Mathematics - 417 pages
The book offers categorical introductions to order, topology, algebra and sheaf theory, suitable for graduate students, teachers and researchers of pure mathematics.
 

Contents

Chapter
2
Locales
41
A Functional Approach to General Topology
103
References
160
Regular Protomodular and Abelian Categories
165
Epimorphisms and regular categories
169
Normal monomorphisms and protomodular categories
181
Regular protomodular categories
196
Applications of Lawveres Theorem
287
Chapter VII
295
Locally finitely presentable categories
298
References
308
Sheaf Theory
311
Sheaves on a topological space
314
Topologies closure operators and localizations
322
Extensive categories
341

The Short Five Lemma and the Tierney equation
203
References
210
Aspects of Monads
213
Conditions for monadicity
222
Chapter VI
234
Conditions for the unit of a monad to be a monomorphism
239
The Kleisli triples of Manes and their generated monads
249
Monads idempotent monads and commutative monads
257
Algebraic Categories
269
The Lawvere Theorem for algebraic categories
279
References
355
Effective Descent Morphisms
359
Generalization of the kernelcokernel correspondence
367
Elementary descent theory
373
B Grothendiecks descent theory
381
E Fibrations pseudofunctors cosmoi and 2dimensional
389
objects that
395
References
404
Index
407
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