category of topological spaces

Notation Top\Top Objects topological spaces Morphisms continuous functions Related Haus\HausMetc\Met_cTop\Top_*Man\ManUnif\UnifMeas\MeasEuclid\Euclid_{\sqcup} External nLab Link Dual Topop\Top^{\op}

This is the most basic category of geometric objects.

Satisfied Properties

Assigned properties

Deduced properties

Unsatisfied Properties

Assigned properties

Deduced properties*

*This also uses the deduced satisfied properties.

Unknown properties

Special objects

  • terminal object: singleton space
  • initial object: empty space
  • products: direct product with the product topology
  • coproducts: disjoint union with the disjoint union topology

Special morphisms

  • isomorphisms: homeomorphisms
  • monomorphisms: injective continuous maps
  • epimorphisms: surjective continuous maps
  • regular monomorphisms: embeddings
  • regular epimorphisms: surjective quotient maps

Functors

The database stores 7 functors based on the category of topological spaces.

Symmetric monoidal categories

The database stores 1 symmetric monoidal category based on the category of topological spaces.