Affine sets: the structure of complete objects and duality (Q2390520)

In the first section of this paper basic facts about categories of affine sets over an algebraic theory are given. Then a theorem for the existence of completions in this category is proven. Following this idea the authors provide an internal characterization of their complete objects. In this connection the ``Zariski closure'' comes into play with a number of additional useful properties. As a consequence the existence of completions in several topological categories are recovered together with description of their complete objects. At last a general theorem of ``Duality'' leads us to many well-known ``internal'' dualities (e.g. Stone duality, Tarski-duality).