On Connectivity Spaces

Stéphane Dugowson (1)

1 LISMMA - Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Mécaniques et des MAtériaux

This paper presents some basic facts about the so-called connectivity spaces. In particular, it studies the generation of connectivity structures, the existence of limits and colimits in the main categories of connectivity spaces, the closed monoidal category structure given by the so-called tensor product on integral connectivity spaces; it defines homotopy for connectivity spaces and mention briefly related difficulties; it defines smash product of pointed integral connectivity spaces and shows that this operation results in a closed monoidal category with such spaces as objects. Then, it studies finite connectivity spaces, associating a directed acyclic graph with each such space and then defining a new numerical invariant for links: the connectivity order. Finally, it mentions the not very wellknown Brunn-Debrunner-Kanenobu theorem which asserts that every finite integral connectivity space can be represented by a link.

Mots clés: Connectivity; Closed Monoidal Categories; Links; Borromean; Brunnian

Domaines: Topologie générale [math.GN]; Catégories et ensembles [math.CT]; Topologie algébrique [math.AT]

Stéphane Dugowson. On Connectivity Spaces. Cahiers de topologie et géométrie différentielle catégoriques, 2010, LI (4), pp.282-315. ⟨hal-00446998⟩