Extending obstructions to noncommutative functorial spectra

zbMATH Open1308.46078arXiv1407.2745MaRDI QIDQ2877684FDOQ2877684

Authors: Benno van den Berg, Chris Heunen 

Publication date: 25 August 2014

Published in: Theory and Applications of Categories (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Any functor from the category of C*-algebras to the category of locales that assigns to each commutative C*-algebra its Gelfand spectrum must be trivial on algebras of nxn-matrices for n at least 3. This obstruction also applies to other spectra such as those named after Zariski, Stone, and Pierce. We extend these no-go results to functors with values in (ringed) topological spaces, (ringed) toposes, schemes, and quantales. The possibility of spectra in other categories is discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2745

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zbMATH Keywords

spectrumtopos\(C^{\ast}\)-algebralocalequantaleKochen-Specker theoremGelfand-Naimark theoremquantum frame

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other ``noncommutative mathematics based on (C^*)-algebra theory (46L89) Categories, functors in functional analysis (46M15)

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