International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 26 (2001), Issue 9, Pages 561-579
doi:10.1155/S0161171201005439
Quantification of topological concepts using ideals
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp-RUCA, Groenenborgerlaan 171, Antwerpen 2020, Belgium
Received 19 February 2000
Copyright © 2001 Robert Lowen and Bart Windels. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We introduce certain ideals of real-valued functions as a natural generalization of filters. We show that these ideals establish a canonical framework for the quantification of topological concepts, such as closedness, adherence, and compactness, in the setting of approach spaces.