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Extensions of topological structures abound. In Chapter 1 we investigated the extensions βX and υX. Metric and uniform completions are also well known constructions, which, although not strictly topological, are similar. All satisfy a factorization property similar to the requirement that a mapping f of X to a compact space K extend to βX:
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Walker, R.C. (1974). βX in Categorical Perspective. In: Walker, R.C. (eds) The Stone-Čech Compactification. Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, vol 83. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61935-9_10
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