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Stone-Čech compactification functor

This is the functor β:TopCompHaus\beta : \Top \to \CompHaus that is left adjoint to the inclusion functor CompHausTop\CompHaus \hookrightarrow \Top. There are various constructions (see Wikipedia), one being that β(X)\beta(X) is the closure of the image of the canonical map X[0,1]Hom(X,[0,1]).X \to [0,1]^{\Hom(X,[0,1])}. Among other things, this functor provides an example of a reflector that does not preserve binary products.

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*This also uses the deduced satisfied properties.

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