Unital Specker $\ell$-groups and boolean multispaces
Abstract
As a topological generalization of the notion of a multiset, a boolean multispace is a boolean space with a continuous function , where has the discrete topology. In this paper the category of boolean multispaces and continuous multiplicity-decreasing morphisms with respect to the divisibility order is shown to be dually equivalent to the category of unital Specker -groups and unital -homomorphisms. This result extends Stone duality, because unital Specker -groups whose distinguished unit is singular are equivalent to boolean algebras. Boolean multispaces, in turn, are categorically equivalent to the Priestley duals of the MV-algebras corresponding to unital Specker -groups via the functor. Via duality, we show that the category of unital Specker -groups has finite colimits and finite products, but lacks some countable copowers and equalizers.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.21500,
title = {Unital Specker $\ell$-groups and boolean multispaces},
author = {Marco Abbadini and Daniele Mundici},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.21500},
year = {2026}
}