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Incidence structures and Stone-Priestley duality

Combinatorics 2016-09-07 v1 General Mathematics

Abstract

We observe that if R:=(I,ρ,J)R:=(I,\rho, J) is an incidence We observe that if R:=(I,ρ,J)R:=(I,\rho, J) is an incidence structure, viewed as a matrix, then the topological closure of the set of columns is the Stone space of the Boolean algebra generated by the rows. As a consequence, we obtain that the topological closure of the collection of principal initial segments of a poset PP is the Stone space of the Boolean algebra Tailalg(P)Tailalg (P) generated by the collection of principal final segments of PP, the so-called {\it tail-algebra of PP}. Similar results concerning Priestley spaces and distributive lattices are given. A generalization to incidence structures valued by abstract algebras is considered.

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@article{arxiv.math/0601121,
  title  = {Incidence structures and Stone-Priestley duality},
  author = {Mohamed Bekkali and Maurice Pouzet and Driss Zhani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0601121},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages