Approach Merotopological Spaces and their Completion英文文献资料.docVIP

HindawiPublishingCorporation InternationalJournalofMathematicsandMathematicalSciences Volume2010,ArticleID409804,16pages doi:10.1155/2010/409804 ResearchArticle ApproachMerotopological Spacesand theirCompletion MonaKhareandSurabhiTiwari Department ofMathematics, University ofAllahabad, Allahabad 211002,India Correspondence shouldbeaddressedtoMonaKhare,dr.mkhare@ Received24July2009;Accepted 13April2010 Academic Editor:RichardWilson Copyright q2010M.KhareandS.Tiwari. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction inanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. Thispaperintroduces theconceptofanapproachmerotopological spaceandstudiesitscategory- theoretic properties. Varioustopological categories areshown tobeembedded into the category whose objects are approach merotopological spaces. The order structure of the family of all approachmerotopologies onanonemptysetisdiscussed.Employingthetheoryofbunches,bunch completion of an approach merotopological space is constructed. The present study is auni?ed lookatthecompletionofmetricspaces,approachspaces,nearnessspaces,merotopological spaces, andapproachmerotopological spaces. 1.Introduction Some of the applications of nearness-like structures within topology are uni?cation, extensions,homology,andconnectedness.ThecategoriesofR0-topologicalspaces,uniform spaces 1, 2, proximity spaces 2, 3, and contiguity spaces 4, 5 are embedded into the category of nearness spaces. The study of proximity, contiguity, and merotopic spaces in themoregeneralizedsettingofL-fuzzytheorycanbeseenin6–13.In14,thenotionof an approach space was introduced via di?erent equivalent set of axioms to measure the degree of nearness between a set and a point. While developing the theory of approach spaces,Lowenetal.manyatimeemployedtoolsfromnearness-likestructures.Thenotionof “distance”inapproachspacesiscloselyrelatedtothen