Table of contents for Virtual topology and functor geometry / Fred van Oystaeyen.

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Chapter 1 A Taste of Category Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.1. Basic Notions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.2. Grothendieck Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.3. Separable Functors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 2 Noncommutative Spaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
2.1. Small Categories, Posets and Noncommutative Topologies . . . . . . . . . 29
2.2. The Topology of Virtual Opens and its Commutative Shadow . . . . . 40
2.3. Points and the Point Spectrum. Points in a Pointless world . . . . . . . 54
2.4. Presheaves and Sheaves over Noncommutative Topologies. . . . . . . . . .63
2.5. Noncommutative Grothendieck Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
2.6. The Fundamental Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
I. Torsion Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
II. L(H) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
III. Ore sets in Schematic Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Chapter 3 Grothendieck Categorical Representations . . . . . . . . . 121
3.1. Spectral Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
3.2. Affine Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
3.3. Quotient representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
3.4. Noncommutative Projective Space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154
Chapter 4 Sheaves and Dynamical Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
4.1. Introducing Structure Sheaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
4.2. Dynamical Presheaves and Temporal Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
4.3. The ¿Spaced-Time¿ Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
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Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Categories (Mathematics).
Grothendieck categories.
Representations of congruence lattices.
Sheaf theory.
Dynamics.
Noncommutative function spaces.