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Enriched category theory

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topology (point-set topology, point-free topology)

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Definition

In the following we say Top-enriched category and Top-enriched functor etc. for what often is referred to as “topological category” and “topological functor” etc. As discussed there, these latter terms are ambiguous.

Definition

Write

Top cgTop Top_{cg} \hookrightarrow Top

for the full subcategory of Top on the compactly generated topological spaces. Under forming Cartesian product

()×():Top cg×Top cgTop cg (-)\times (-) \;\colon\; Top_{cg} \times Top_{cg} \longrightarrow Top_{cg}

and compactly generated mapping spaces

() ():Top cg op×Top cgTop cg (-)^{(-)} \;\colon\; Top_{cg}^{op}\times Top_{cg} \longrightarrow Top_{cg}

this is a cartesian closed category (see at convenient category of topological spaces).

Definition

A topologically enriched category 𝒞\mathcal{C} is a Top cgTop_{cg}-enriched category, hence:

  1. a class Obj(𝒞)Obj(\mathcal{C}), called the class of objects;

  2. for each a,bObj(𝒞)a,b\in Obj(\mathcal{C}) a compactly generated topological space

    𝒞(a,b)Top cg, \mathcal{C}(a,b)\in Top_{cg} \,,

    called the space of morphisms or the hom-space between aa and bb;

  3. for each a,b,cObj(𝒞)a,b,c\in Obj(\mathcal{C}) a continuous function

    a,b,c:𝒞(a,b)×𝒞(b,c)𝒞(a,c) \circ_{a,b,c} \;\colon\; \mathcal{C}(a,b)\times \mathcal{C}(b,c) \longrightarrow \mathcal{C}(a,c)

    out of the cartesian product, called the composition operation

  4. for each aObj(𝒞)a \in Obj(\mathcal{C}) a point id a𝒞(a,a)id_a\in \mathcal{C}(a,a), called the identity morphism on aa

such that the composition is associative and unital.

Remark

Given a topologically enriched category as in def. , then forgetting the topology on the hom-spaces (along the forgetful functor U:Top kSetU \colon Top_k \to Set) yields an ordinary locally small category with

Hom 𝒞(a,b)=U(𝒞(a,b)). Hom_{\mathcal{C}}(a,b) = U(\mathcal{C}(a,b)) \,.

It is in this sense that 𝒞\mathcal{C} is a category with extra structure, and hence “enriched”.

The archetypical example is the following:

Example

The category Top cgTop_{cg} from def. itself, being a cartesian closed category, canonically obtains the structure of a topologically enriched category, def. , with hom-spaces given by compactly generated mapping spaces

Top cg(X,Y)Y X Top_{cg}(X,Y) \coloneqq Y^X

and with composition

Y X×Z YZ X Y^X \times Z^Y \longrightarrow Z^X

given by the (product\dashv mapping-space)-adjunct of the evaluation morphism

X×Y X×Z Y(ev,id)Y×Z YevZ. X \times Y^X \times Z^Y \overset{(ev, id)}{\longrightarrow} Y \times Z^Y \overset{ev}{\longrightarrow} Z \,.
Definition

A topologically enriched functor between two topologically enriched categories

F:𝒞𝒟 F \;\colon\; \mathcal{C} \longrightarrow \mathcal{D}

is a Top cgTop_{cg}-enriched functor, hence:

  1. a function

    F 0:Obj(𝒞)Obj(𝒟) F_0 \colon Obj(\mathcal{C}) \longrightarrow Obj(\mathcal{D})

    of objects;

  2. for each a,bObj(𝒞)a,b \in Obj(\mathcal{C}) a continuous function

    F a,b:𝒞(a,b)𝒟(F 0(a),F 0(b)) F_{a,b} \;\colon\; \mathcal{C}(a,b) \longrightarrow \mathcal{D}(F_0(a), F_0(b))

    of hom-spaces

such that this preserves composition and identity morphisms in the evident sense.

A homomorphism of topologically enriched functors

η:FG \eta \;\colon\; F \Rightarrow G

is a Top cgTop_{cg}-enriched natural transformation: for each cObj(𝒞)c \in Obj(\mathcal{C}) a choice of morphism η c𝒟(F(c),G(c))\eta_c \in \mathcal{D}(F(c),G(c)) such that for each pair of objects c,d𝒞c,d \in \mathcal{C} the two continuous functions

η dF():𝒞(c,d)𝒟(F(c),G(d)) \eta_d \circ F(-) \;\colon\; \mathcal{C}(c,d) \longrightarrow \mathcal{D}(F(c), G(d))

and

G()η c:𝒞(c,d)𝒟(F(c),G(d)) G(-) \circ \eta_c \;\colon\; \mathcal{C}(c,d) \longrightarrow \mathcal{D}(F(c), G(d))

agree.

We write [𝒞,𝒟][\mathcal{C}, \mathcal{D}] for the resulting category of topologically enriched functors. This itself naturally obtains the structure of topologically enriched category, see at enriched functor category.

Topologically enriched presheaves

Example

For 𝒞\mathcal{C} any topologically enriched category, def. then a topologically enriched functor

F:𝒞Top cg F \;\colon\; \mathcal{C} \longrightarrow Top_{cg}

to the archetypical topologically enriched category from example may be thought of as a topologically enriched copresheaf, at least if 𝒞\mathcal{C} is small (in that its class of objects is a proper set).

Hence the category of topologically enriched functors

[𝒞,Top cg] [\mathcal{C}, Top_{cg}]

according to def. may be thought of as the (co-)presheaf category over 𝒞\mathcal{C} in the realm of topologically enriched categories.

A functor F[𝒞,Top cg]F \in [\mathcal{C}, Top_{cg}] is equivalently

such that composition is respected, in the evident sense.

For every object c𝒞c \in \mathcal{C}, there is a topologically enriched representable functor, denoted y(c)y(c) or 𝒞(c,)\mathcal{C}(c,-) which sends objects to

y(c)(d)=𝒞(c,d)Top cg y(c)(d) = \mathcal{C}(c,d) \in Top_{cg}

and whose action on morphisms is, under the above identification, just the composition operation in 𝒞\mathcal{C}.

There is a full blown Top cgTop_{cg}-enriched Yoneda lemma. The following records a slightly simplified version.

Proposition

(topologically enriched Yoneda-lemma)

Let 𝒞\mathcal{C} be a topologically enriched category, def. , write [𝒞,Top cg][\mathcal{C}, Top_{cg}] for its category of topologically enriched (co-)presheaves, and for cObj(𝒞)c\in Obj(\mathcal{C}) write y(c)=𝒞(c,)[𝒞,Top k]y(c) = \mathcal{C}(c,-) \in [\mathcal{C}, Top_k] for the topologically enriched functor that it represents, all according to example . Recall also the Top cgTop_{cg}-tensored functors FXF \cdot X from that example.

For cObj(𝒞)c\in Obj(\mathcal{C}), XTop cgX \in Top_{cg} and F[𝒞,Top cg]F \in [\mathcal{C}, Top_{cg}], there is a natural bijection between

  1. morphisms y(c)XFy(c) \cdot X \longrightarrow F in [𝒞,Top cg][\mathcal{C}, Top_{cg}];

  2. morphisms XF(c)X \longrightarrow F(c) in Top cgTop_{cg}.

Proof

Given a morphism η:y(c)XF\eta \colon y(c) \cdot X \longrightarrow F consider its component

η c:𝒞(c,c)×XF(c) \eta_c \;\colon\; \mathcal{C}(c,c)\times X \longrightarrow F(c)

and restrict that to the identity morphism id c𝒞(c,c)id_c \in \mathcal{C}(c,c) in the first argument

η c(id c,):XF(c). \eta_c(id_c,-) \;\colon\; X \longrightarrow F(c) \,.

We claim that just this η c(id c,)\eta_c(id_c,-) already uniquely determines all components

η d:𝒞(c,d)×XF(d) \eta_d \;\colon\; \mathcal{C}(c,d)\times X \longrightarrow F(d)

of η\eta, for all dObj(𝒞)d \in Obj(\mathcal{C}): By definition of the transformation η\eta (def. ), the two functions

F()η c:𝒞(c,d)F(d) 𝒞(c,c)×X F(-) \circ \eta_c \;\colon\; \mathcal{C}(c,d) \longrightarrow F(d)^{\mathcal{C}(c,c) \times X}

and

η d𝒞(c,)×X:𝒞(c,d)F(d) 𝒞(c,c)×X \eta_d \circ \mathcal{C}(c,-) \times X \;\colon\; \mathcal{C}(c,d) \longrightarrow F(d)^{\mathcal{C}(c,c) \times X}

agree. This means that they may be thought of jointly as a function with values in commuting squares in TopTop of this form:

f𝒞(c,c)×X η c F(c) 𝒞(c,f) F(f) 𝒞(c,d)×X η d F(d) f \;\;\;\; \mapsto \;\;\;\; \array{ \mathcal{C}(c,c) \times X &\overset{\eta_c}{\longrightarrow}& F(c) \\ {}^{\mathllap{\mathcal{C}(c,f)}}\downarrow && \downarrow^{\mathrlap{F(f)}} \\ \mathcal{C}(c,d) \times X &\underset{\eta_d}{\longrightarrow}& F(d) }

For any f𝒞(c,d)f \in \mathcal{C}(c,d), consider the restriction of

η d𝒞(c,f)F(d) 𝒞(c,c)×X \eta_d \circ \mathcal{C}(c,f) \in F(d)^{\mathcal{C}(c,c) \times X}

to id c𝒞(c,c)id_c \in \mathcal{C}(c,c), hence restricting the above commuting squares to

f{id c}×X η c F(c) 𝒞(c,f) F(f) {f}×X η d F(d) f \;\;\;\; \mapsto \;\;\;\; \array{ \{id_c\} \times X &\overset{\eta_c}{\longrightarrow}& F(c) \\ {}^{\mathllap{\mathcal{C}(c,f)}}\downarrow && \downarrow^{\mathrlap{F}(f)} \\ \{f\} \times X &\underset{\eta_d}{\longrightarrow}& F(d) }

This shows that η d\eta_d is fixed to be the function

η d(f,x)=F(f)η c(id c,x) \eta_d(f,x) = F(f)\circ \eta_c(id_c,x)

and this is a continuous function since all the operations it is built from are continuous.

Conversely, given a continuous function α:XF(c)\alpha \colon X \longrightarrow F(c), define for each dd the function

η d:(f,x)F(f)α. \eta_d \colon (f,x) \mapsto F(f) \circ \alpha \,.

Running the above analysis backwards shows that this determines a transformation η:y(c)×XF\eta \colon y(c)\times X \to F.

Remark

With Top cgTop_{cg} equipped with the classical model structure on topological spaces, which is a presentation for the archetypical (∞,1)-category ∞Grpd of ∞-groupoids, then the topological functor category

[𝒞,Top cg] [\mathcal{C},Top_{cg}]

(def. , def. ) is a model for the (∞,1)-category of (∞,1)-presheaves on 𝒞 op\mathcal{C}^{op}. This is made precise by the model structure on enriched functors, [𝒞,Top Quillen] proj[\mathcal{C},Top_{Quillen}]_{proj}. See at classical model structure on topological spaces – Model structure on functors for details.

References

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