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Bohr compactifications of algebras and structures (English)
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10 August 2017
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The authors present ``a unifying framework for a range of categorical constructions characterised by universal mapping properties, within the realm of compactifications of discrete structures. Some classic examples fit within this broad picture: the Bohr compactification of an abelian group via Pontryagin duality, the zero-dimensional Bohr compactification of a semilattice, and the Nachbin order-compactification of an ordered set''. Their declared goal is ``to analyse in a uniform manner compactifications in a range of specific categories''. Constructions of this type arise widely in algebra and in topology. In all cases ``the objects constructed are topological structures and the construction is performed by applying the left adjoint to a functor which forgets the topology. Here the categories on which the left adjoint functors act have as objects a suitable class either of algebras or of relational structures''.
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Bohr compactification
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natural extension
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natural duality
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Stone-Čech compactification
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Nachbin order-compactification
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standard topological prevariety
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