Compact Hausdorff reflection

ID: compact-hausdorff-reflection

The inclusion of compact Hausdorff spaces in topological spaces has a left adjoint. Its unit is universal among continuous functions from to compact Hausdorff spaces and has dense image. Completeness follows from products in a category and closed equalizers. For any map , its closed image has a dense subset of cardinality at most and hence cardinality at most . Representatives of all such compact Hausdorff spaces and maps establish the solution-set condition, so the general adjoint functor theorem gives the reflection. The unit need not be injective or a topological embedding for an arbitrary .

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