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A Gelfand duality for continuous lattices

Category Theory 2024-01-15 v2 Logic Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We prove that the category of continuous lattices and meet- and directed join-preserving maps is dually equivalent, via the hom functor to [0,1][0,1], to the category of complete Archimedean meet-semilattices equipped with a finite meet-preserving action of the monoid of continuous monotone maps of [0,1][0,1] fixing 11. We also prove an analogous duality for completely distributive lattices. Moreover, we prove that these are essentially the only well-behaved "sound classes of joins Φ\Phi, dual to a class of meets" for which "Φ\Phi-continuous lattice" and "Φ\Phi-algebraic lattice" are different notions, thus for which a 22-valued duality does not suffice.

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@article{arxiv.2301.05988,
  title  = {A Gelfand duality for continuous lattices},
  author = {Ruiyuan Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.05988},
  year   = {2024}
}

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16 pages; revisions from refereeing

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