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In this paper, a pendant to a recent survey paper, the authors discuss several open problems in categorical topology. The emphasis is on topology-oriented problems rather than on more general category-oriented ones. In fact, most problems deal with full subconstructs or superconstructs of the constructTop of topological spaces and continuous maps.

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Herrlich, H., Hušek, M. Some open categorical problems inTop . Appl Categor Struct 1, 1–19 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00872983

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