English

An open mapping theorem for finitely copresented Esakia spaces

Logic 2020-11-19 v2 General Topology Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We prove an open mapping theorem for the topological spaces dual to finitely presented Heyting algebras. This yields in particular a short, self-contained semantic proof of the uniform interpolation theorem for intuitionistic propositional logic, first proved by Pitts in 1992. Our proof is based on the methods of Ghilardi & Zawadowski. However, our proof does not require sheaves nor games, only basic duality theory for Heyting algebras.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1710.01630,
  title  = {An open mapping theorem for finitely copresented Esakia spaces},
  author = {Samuel J. van Gool and Luca Reggio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.01630},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

8 pages. Minor changes in presentation. To appear in Topology and its Applications

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