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Why it is convenient to be cartesian closed for a category of spaces?

In 1967 Steenrod wrote what later became a quite celebrated paper, A convenient category of topological spaces (Michigan Math. J. 14 (1967) 133–152). The paper conveys the work of many (among the most ...
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Striking existence theorems with mild conditions, and simple to state: more recent examples?

I would like to write an article about powerful existence theorems that assert, under mild and simple conditions, that some basic pattern or regularity exist. See some examples below. By mild ...
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Topological fraction rings and fields

Linked to this question and as a sequel to my answer of it. Let $R$ be a topological (commutative, unital) ring and set $S$ be a submonoid of $(R,\times,1_R)$. Let $$ s_{frac}\ :\ R\times S\to S^{-...
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