A generalization of de Vries duality to closed relations between compact Hausdorff spaces
Abstract
Stone duality generalizes to an equivalence between the categories of Stone spaces and closed relations and of boolean algebras and subordination relations. Splitting equivalences in yields a category that is equivalent to the category of compact Hausdorff spaces and closed relations. Similarly, splitting equivalences in yields a category that is equivalent to the category of de Vries algebras and compatible subordination relations. Applying the machinery of allegories then yields that is equivalent to , thus resolving a problem recently raised in the literature. The equivalence between and further restricts to an equivalence between the category of compact Hausdorff spaces and continuous functions and the wide subcategory of whose morphisms satisfy additional conditions. This yields an alternative to de Vries duality. One advantage of this approach is that composition of morphisms is usual relation composition.
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@article{arxiv.2206.05711,
title = {A generalization of de Vries duality to closed relations between compact Hausdorff spaces},
author = {Marco Abbadini and Guram Bezhanishvili and Luca Carai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.05711},
year = {2025}
}
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18 pages