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An Application of Idempotent Monads and Comonads to Compactifications and Unitizations

Operator Algebras 2026-01-14 v1

Abstract

This paper uses monads and comonads to establish a certain type of equivalence between two subcategories, one reflective and one coreflective, in a category whose objects represent compactifications of non-compact locally compact Hausdorff spaces. The equivalence is then examined in the dual category of unitizations of non-unital commutative CC^*-algebras and subsequently generalized to the noncommutative case.

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@article{arxiv.2601.07940,
  title  = {An Application of Idempotent Monads and Comonads to Compactifications and Unitizations},
  author = {Jeri Ann Spiker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.07940},
  year   = {2026}
}