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Pontryagin duality between compact and discrete abelian inverse monoids

General Topology 2010-09-23 v2 Group Theory Rings and Algebras

Abstract

For a topological monoid S the dual inverse monoid is the topological monoid of all identity preserving homomorphisms from S to the circle with attached zero. A topological monoid S is defined to be reflexive if the canonical homomorphism from S to its second dual inverse monoid is a topological isomorphism. We prove that a (compact or discrete) topological inverse monoid S is reflexive (if and) only if S is abelian and the idempotent semilattice of S is zero-dimensional. For a discrete (resp. compact) topological monoid its dual inverse monoid is compact (resp. discrete). These results unify the Pontryagin-van Kampen Duality Theorem for abelian groups and the Hofmann-Mislove-Stralka Duality Theorem for zero-dimensional topological semilattices.

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@article{arxiv.1008.1175,
  title  = {Pontryagin duality between compact and discrete abelian inverse monoids},
  author = {Taras Banakh and Olena Hryniv},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.1175},
  year   = {2010}
}

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8 pages

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