Stone-Gelfand duality for metrically complete lattice-ordered groups

arXiv2210.15341MaRDI QIDQ6415293FDOQ6415293

Luca Spada, Marco Abbadini, Vincenzo Marra

Publication date: 27 October 2022

Abstract: We extend Yosida's 1941 version of Stone-Gelfand duality to metrically complete unital lattice-ordered groups that are no longer required to be real vector spaces. This calls for a generalised notion of compact Hausdorff space whose points carry an arithmetic character to be preserved by continuous maps. The arithmetic character of a point is (the complete isomorphism invariant of) a metrically complete additive subgroup of the real numbers containing $1$, namely, either $frac1nmathbbZ$ for an integer $n=1,2,dots$, or the whole of $mathbbR$. The main result needed to establish the extended duality theorem is a substantial generalisation of Urysohn's Lemma to such "arithmetic" compact Hausdorff spaces. The original duality is obtained by considering the full subcategory of spaces whose each point is assigned the entire group of real numbers. In the introduction we indicate motivations from and connections with the theory of dimension groups.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered abelian groups, Riesz groups, ordered linear spaces (06F20) Topological spaces and generalizations (closure spaces, etc.) (54A05) Real-valued functions in general topology (54C30)

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