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Hausdorff Compactifications as Epireflections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

W. N. Hunsaker
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, U.S.A.
S. A. Naimpally
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1
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Abstract

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We answer the following problem posed by Herrlich in the affirmative: “Can the Freudenthal compactification be regarded as a reflection in a sensible way?” This is accomplished by exploiting the one-to-one correspondence between proximities compatible with a given Tihonov space and compactifications of that space. We give topological characterizations of proximally continuous functions for the proximities associated with the Freudenthal and Fan-Gottesman compactifications.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

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