CONNECTEDNESS AND DISCONNECTEDNESS: A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

A factorization of a Galois connection investigated earlier is used to give a definition of a connectedness-disconnectedness Galois connection that is free of the notion of constant morphism. A new notion of N-fixed morphism with respect to a class N of monomorphisms is presented. This is used to characterize the connectedness-disconnectedness Galois connection in the case that N is closed under the formation of pullbacks. Some closedness properties of these Galois connections are investigated.