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In this paper the structure of hereditary coreflective subcategories in the categories Tych of Tychonoff and ZD of zero-dimensional spaces is studied. It is shown that there are (many) hereditary additive and divisible subcategories in Tych and ZD which are not coreflective. Moreover, if \({\mathcal{A}}\) is an epireflective subcategory of the category Top of topological spaces which is not bireflective and \({\mathcal{B}}\) is an additive and divisible subcategory of \({\mathcal{A}}\) which is not coreflective, then the coreflective hull of \({\mathcal{B}}\) in \({\mathcal{A}}\) is not hereditary. It is also shown, in the case of Tych under Martin’s axiom or under the continuum hypothesis, that if \({\mathcal{B}}\) is a hereditary coreflective subcategory of Tych (ZD), then either the topologies of all spaces belonging to \({\mathcal{B}}\) are closed under countable intersections or it contains all Tychonoff spaces (zero-dimensional spaces) with Ulam nonmeasurable cardinality.
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The author acknowledges the support of the VEGA Grant 1/0588/09.
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Činčura, J. Hereditary Coreflective Subcategories of the Categories of Tychonoff and Zero-Dimensional Spaces. Appl Categor Struct 21, 671–679 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10485-012-9285-4
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Keywords
- Coreflective subcategory
- Epireflective subcategory
- Hereditary coreflective subcategory
- Hereditary additive and divisible subcategory