Regular coverings and fundamental groupoids of Alexandroff spaces

Abstract

We summarize several results about the regular coverings and the fundamental groupoids of Alexandroff spaces. In particular, we show that the fundamental groupoid of an Alexandroff space $X$ is naturally isomorphic to the localization, at its set of morphisms, of the thin category associated to the set $X$ considered as a preordered set with the specialization preorder. We also show that the regular coverings of an Alexandroff space $X$ are represented by certain morphism-inverting functors with domain $X$, extending a result of E. Minian and J. Barmak about the regular coverings of locally finite T$_0$ spaces.