syntopogenous structure
In the early part of the 20th century, topological spaces![]()
were invented to capture the essence of the idea of continuity. At around the same time, other competing ideas had emerged, resulting in a variety
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of other “similar” types of spaces: uniform spaces and proximity spaces are the two prominent examples. These abstractions have led mathematicians to even further abstractions, in an attempt to combine all these concepts into a single construct. One such result is so-called a syntopogenous structure.
Before formally defining what a syntopogenous structure is, let us look at some of the commonalities among the three types of spaces that led to this “generalized” structure![]()
. Specifically, in all three types of sapces, we can define a transitive relation on the space such that the relation
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satisfies some features that are common in all three cases:
Let be a space and , we define iff
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(topological), the interior of .
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(uniform) for some entourage . is a uniform neighborhood of .
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(proximity), where is the proximity relation, and is its complement
.
In all three cases, the relation is transitive![]()
. Furthermore, we have the following:
- 1.
,
- 2.
,
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if , then ,
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if and , then ,
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if and , then ,
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if , then .
Definition. Let be a set. A topogenous order on is a binary relation on , the powerset of , satisfying the six properties above.
By properties 2 and 6, we see that a topogenous order is a transitive antisymmetric relation.
We are now ready for the main definition.
Definition. A syntopogenous structure consists of a set and a collection![]()
of topogenous orders on such that:
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if , then there is such that ,
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for any , then there is such that .
Remark. The two defining conditions of a syntopogenous structure are equivalent![]()
to the following, given subsets of :
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for any , there is a such that and imply ,
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for any with , there is a such that for some subset of .
References
- 1 A. Császár, Foundations of General Topology,Macmillan, New York, 1963.
- 2 S.A. Naimpally, B.D. Warrack, Proximity Spaces, Cambridge University Press, 1970.