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Overtness is the lattice dual of compactness in various forms of constructive topology and analysis, where related ideas are also called "located" (constructive analysis), "recursively enumerable" (computable analysis), "open" (locale theory) or "positive" (formal topology).

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Is there a universal property characterizing the category of compact Hausdorff spaces?

This is in some sense a follow up to the question asked here Properties of the category of compact Hausdorff spaces To clarify: The category $\text{Prof}$ of profinite sets sits inside the category $\ …