The aim of this paper is to study the categorical relations between matroids, Goetschel-Voxman’s fuzzy matroids and Shi’s fuzzifying matroids. It is shown that the category of fuzzifying matroids is isomorphic to that of closed fuzzy matroids and the latter is concretely coreflective in the category of fuzzy matroids. The category of matroids can be embedded in that of fuzzifying matroids as a ...

A protolocalisation of a regular category is a full reflective regular subcategory, whose reflection preserves pullbacks of regular epimorphisms along arbitrary morphisms. We devote special attention to the epireflective protolocalisations of an exact Mal’cev category; we characterise them in terms of a corresponding closure operator on equivalence relations. We give some examples in algebra an...

Every nontrivial countably productive coreflective subcategory of topological linear spaces is κ-productive for a large cardinal κ (see [10]). Unlike that case, in uniform spaces for every infinite regular cardinal κ, there are coreflective subcategories that are κ-productive and not κ-productive (see [8]). From certain points of view, the category of topological groups lies in between those ca...

RÉSUMÉ. Cet article étudie l’enveloppe réflective engendrée par une sous-catégorie pleine d’une catégorie complète. Il s’agit de la plus petite sous-catégorie qui est pleine et réflective. Comme application nous obtenons l’enveloppe coréflective de la sous-catégorie pleine de cubes pointés dans la catégorie des espaces topologiques pointés. Par la suite nous déterminons l’enveloppe réflective d...

We prove that, in a triangulated category with combinatorial models, every localizing subcategory is coreflective and every colocalizing subcategory is reflective if a certain large-cardinal axiom (Vopěnka’s principle) is assumed true. It follows that, under the same assumptions, orthogonality sets up a bijective correspondence between localizing subcategories and colocalizing subcategories. Th...

By defining a closure operator on effective equivalence relations in a regular category C, it is possible to establish a bijective correspondence between these closure operators and the regular epireflective subcategories of C, on the model of the closure operators on kernels in homological categories [5]. When C is an exact Goursat category [6], this correspondence restricts to a bijection bet...

In addition to exploring constructions and properties of limits and colimits in categories of topological algebras, we study special subcategories of topological algebras and their properties. In particular, under certain conditions, reflective subcategories when paired with topological structures give rise to reflective subcategories and epireflective subcategories give rise to epireflective s...

We study algebraic properties of categories of Merotopic, Nearness, and Filter Algebras. We show that the category of filter torsion free abelian groups is an epireflective subcategory of the category of filter abelian groups. The forgetful functor from the category of filter rings to filter monoids is essentially algebraic and the forgetful functor from the category of filter groups to the cat...

Consider L being a continuous lattice, two functors from the category of convex spaces (denoted by CS) to the category of stratified L-convex spaces (denoted by SL-CS) are defined. The first functor enables us to prove that the category CS can be embedded in the category SL-CS as a reflective subcategory. The second functor enables us to prove that the category CS can be embedded in the categor...

Let G denote the full subcategory of topological abelian groups consisting of the groups that can be embedded algebraically and topologically into a product of locally compact abelian groups. We show that there is a full coreflective subcategory S of G that contains all locally compact groups and is *-autonomous. This means that for all G,H in S there is an “internal hom” G −◦H whose underlying...