Closed embeddings in TopCat #
This file introduces the morphism property TauCeti.TopCat.isClosedEmbedding of TopCat, the
closed embeddings, and proves that it is stable under the operations used to build relative cell
complexes:
- cobase change: in a pushout square, the map opposite to a closed embedding is a closed
embedding (
TauCeti.TopCat.isClosedEmbedding_of_isPushout); - coproducts: a coproduct of closed embeddings is a closed embedding
(
TauCeti.TopCat.isClosedEmbedding_sigmaMap); - transfinite composition: if every successor map of a well-order-continuous diagram is a closed
embedding, then so is every transition map
(
TauCeti.TopCat.isClosedEmbedding_map_of_isWellOrderContinuous), and a transfinite composition of closed embeddings is a closed embedding (theIsStableUnderTransfiniteCompositioninstance). Mathlib'sMorphismProperty.TransfiniteCompositionOfShape.mem_incl_appthen shows that the map from each stage of such a composition to the composite is a closed embedding.
The last point comes from a statement about directed colimits: if all transition maps of a
directed diagram are closed embeddings, so are the maps to its colimit
(TauCeti.TopCat.isClosedEmbedding_ι_of_isColimit), refining the corresponding statement for
injective maps (TauCeti.TopCat.injective_ι_of_isColimit).
With Mathlib's description of a relative cell complex as a transfinite composition of pushouts of
coproducts of its basic cells, these stability properties show that a relative cell complex in
TopCat whose basic cells are closed embeddings is a closed embedding; see
TauCeti.Topology.CWComplex.Abstract.ClosedEmbedding.
References #
- A. Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Appendix, on the topology of cell complexes.
The closed embeddings, as a class of morphisms of TopCat.
Instances For
A subset of the corner of a pushout square in TopCat is closed if and only if its preimages
under the two maps into the corner are closed.
In TopCat, the cobase change of a closed embedding is a closed embedding: in a pushout
square, the map opposite to a closed embedding is a closed embedding.
In TopCat, a coproduct of closed embeddings is a closed embedding.
If all transition maps of a directed diagram in TopCat are closed embeddings, then so are
the maps from the objects of the diagram to its colimit.
If every successor map of a well-order-continuous diagram in TopCat is a closed embedding,
then so is every transition map.