Glueing spaces without identifying points

Abstract

In this paper we develop the theory of Artin-Wraith glueings for topological spaces. As an application, we show that some categories of compactifications of coarse spaces that agree with the coarse structures are invariant under coarse equivalences. As a consequence, if X and Y are some well behaved metric spaces that are coarse equivalent, then they have the same space of ends (generalizing the well known fact that works on quasi-isometric proper geodesic metric spaces). As another application, we show that for every compact metrizable space $Y$, there exists only one, up to homeomorphisms, compactification of the Cantor set minus one point such that the remainder is homeomorphic to $Y$.