A non-commutative Priestley duality

We prove that the category of left-handed strongly distributive skew lattices with zero and proper homomorphisms is dually equivalent to a category of sheaves over local Priestley spaces. Our result thus provides a non-commutative version of classical Priestley duality for distributive lattices and generalizes the recent development of Stone duality for skew Boolean algebras.     

Special elements of the lattice of epigroup varieties

We describe right-hand skew Boolean algebras in terms of a class of presheaves of sets over Boolean algebras called Boolean sets, and prove a duality theorem between Boolean sets and étalé spaces over Boolean spaces.     

A de Vries-type duality theorem for the category of locally compact spaces and continuous maps. I

Generalizing de Vries’ duality theorem [9], we prove that the category HLC of locally compact Hausdorff spaces and continuous maps is dual to the category DHLC of complete local contact algebras and appropriate morphisms between them.     

Some generalizations of Fedorchuk duality theorem—I

Generalizing duality theorem of V.V. Fedorchuk [V.V. Fedorchuk, Boolean δ-algebras and quasi-open mappings, Sibirsk. Mat. Zh. 14 (5) (1973) 1088-1099; English translation: Siberian Math. J. 14 (1973) 759-767 (1974)], we prove Stone-type duality theorems for the following four categories: the objects of all of them are the locally compact Hausdorff spaces, and their morphisms are, respectively, the continuous skeletal maps, the quasi-open perfect maps, the open maps, the open perfect maps. In particular, a Stone-type duality theorem for the category of compact Hausdorff spaces and open maps is obtained. Some equivalence theorems for these four categories are stated as well; two of them generalize the Fedorchuk equivalence theorem [V.V. Fedorchuk, Boolean δ-algebras and quasi-open mappings, Sibirsk. Mat. Zh. 14 (5) (1973) 1088-1099; English translation: Siberian Math. J. 14 (1973) 759-767 (1974)].     

Inverse semigroup actions as groupoid actions

To an inverse semigroup, we associate an étale groupoid such that its actions on topological spaces are equivalent to actions of the inverse semigroup. Both the object and the arrow space of this groupoid are non-Hausdorff. We show that this construction provides an adjoint functor to the functor that maps a groupoid to its inverse semigroup of bisections, where we turn étale groupoids into a category using algebraic morphisms. We also discuss how to recover a groupoid from this inverse semigroup.     

Representations of étale Lie groupoids and modules over Hopf algebroids

The classical Serre-Swan’s theorem defines an equivalence between the category of vector bundles and the category of finitely generated projective modules over the algebra of continuous functions on some compact Hausdorff topological space. We extend these results to obtain a correspondence between the category of representations of an étale Lie groupoid and the category of modules over its Hopf algebroid that are of finite type and of constant rank. Both of these constructions are functorially defined on the Morita category of étale Lie groupoids and we show that the given correspondence represents a natural equivalence between them.     

Order Continuity of Locally Compact Boolean Algebras

The main purpose of this paper is to exhibit the decisive role that order continuity plays in the structure of locally compact Boolean algebras as well as in that of atomic topological Boolean algebras. We prove that the following three conditions are equivalent for a topological Boolean algebra B: (1) B is compact; (2) B is locally compact, Boolean complete, order continuous; (3) B is Boolean complete, atomic and order continuous. Note that under the discrete topology any Boolean algebra is locally compact.     

Tight Homomorphisms and Hermitian Symmetric Spaces

We introduce the notion of tight homomorphism into a locally compact group with nonvanishing bounded cohomology and study these homomorphisms in detail when the target is a Lie group of Hermitian type. Tight homomorphisms between Lie groups of Hermitian type give rise to tight totally geodesic maps of Hermitian symmetric spaces. We show that tight maps behave in a functorial way with respect to the Shilov boundary and use this to prove a general structure theorem for tight homomorphisms. Furthermore, we classify all tight embeddings of the Poincaré disk.     

Convex hyperspaces of probability measures and extensors in the asymptotic category

The objects of the Dranishnikov asymptotic category are proper metric spaces and the morphisms are asymptotically Lipschitz maps. In this paper we provide an example of an asymptotically zero-dimensional space (in the sense of Gromov) whose space of compact convex subsets of probability measures is not an absolute extensor in the asymptotic category in the sense of Dranishnikov.     

Fixed point indices in locally convex spaces

The primary objective of this paper is to show that semicomplex structures may be employed to define a local fixed point index on the category whose objects are all finite unions of compact, convex subsets of locally convex topological vector spaces and whose morphisms are all continuous maps between its objects. This is established via the use of the lc1 spaces introduced by Lefschetz to generalize absolute neighborhood retracts.     

Le théorème de Lefschetz–Hopf pour les applications compactes des espaces ULC

We prove the Lefschetz–Hopf fixed point theorem for compact maps of locally equiconnected spaces. Dédié à la mémoire de Jean Leray     

Effective Descent Morphisms in Categories of Lax Algebras

In this paper we investigate effective descent morphisms in categories of reflexive and transitive lax algebras. We show in particular that open and proper maps are of effective descent, result that extends the corresponding results for the category of topological spaces and continuous maps.     

Dixmier's theorem for sequentially order continuous Baire measures on compact spaces

We prove that a Baire measure (or a regular Borel measure) on a compact Hausdorff space is sequentially order continuous as a linear functional on the Banach space of all continuous functions if and only if it vanishes on meager Baire subsets, a result parallel to a much earlier theorem of Dixmier. We also give some results on the relation between sequentially order continuous measures on compact spaces and countably additive measures on Boolean algebras.

     

Abstract ordered compact convex sets and algebras of the (sub)probabilistic powerdomain monad over ordered compact spaces

The majority of categories used in denotational semantics are topological in nature. One of these is the category of stably compact spaces and continuous maps. Previously, Eilenberg–Moore algebras were studied for the extended probabilistic powerdomain monad over the category of ordered compact spaces X and order-preserving continuous maps in the sense of Nachbin. Appropriate algebras were characterized as compact convex subsets of ordered locally convex topological vector spaces. In so doing, functional analytic tools were involved. The main accomplishments of this paper are as follows: the result mentioned is re-proved and is extended to the subprobabilistic case; topological methods are developed which defy an appeal to functional analysis; a more topological approach might be useful for the stably compact case; algebras of the (sub)probabilistic powerdomain monad inherit barycentric operations that satisfy the same equational laws as those in vector spaces. Also, it is shown that it is convenient first to embed these abstract convex sets in abstract cones, which are simpler to work with. Lastly, we state embedding theorems for abstract ordered locally compact cones and compact convex sets in ordered topological vector spaces.     

Tensor Functional Topology on Woronowicz Categories

Functional topology is concerned with developing topological concepts in a category endowed with certain axiomatically defined classes of morphisms (Clementino et al. 2004). In this paper, we extend functional topology to a monoidal framework, replacing categorical pullbacks by pullbacks relative to the monoidal structure (which itself replaces the product) or more generally relative to a relation on the category (Janelidze, Appl. Categ. Structures, 17(4),351–371, 2009). Our main application is to the opposite Woronowicz category of C ^?-algebras. In this category a natural class of proper morphisms yields the unital algebras as compact objects. When restricted to the commutative C ^?-algebras, we recover exactly the morphisms induced by proper continuous maps of locally compact Hausdorff spaces. We further endow this category with a factorization system and investigate the precise relation with the proper maps, building on an approach which we previously developed with the eye on the category of schemes (Lowen and Mestdagh, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 217(11), 2180–2197, 2013). We also show how our results for C ^?-algebras can naturally be adapted to the opposite Woronowicz category of nondegenerate algebras over a commutative ring.     

Representation and duality for Hilbert algebras

In this paper we introduce a special kind of ordered topological spaces, called Hilbert spaces. We prove that the category of Hilbert algebras with semi-homomorphisms is dually equivalent to the category of Hilbert spaces with certain relations. We restrict this result to give a duality for the category of Hilbert algebras with homomorphisms. We apply these results to prove that the lattice of the deductive systems of a Hilbert algebra and the lattice of open subsets of its dual Hilbert space, are isomorphic. We explore how this duality is related to the duality given in [6] for finite Hilbert algebras, and with the topological duality developed in [7] for Tarski algebras.      

Bitopologies on Totally Ordered Sets

We study the category of ray bispaces, that is, the category whose objects are totally ordered sets with two topologies, each having a subbase of rays and so that the resulting bitopological space is pairwise weakly symmetric, and whose morphisms are the pairwise continuous functions. In contrast with the purely topological results of [5], we show that, (1) such spaces are utterly normal and hence monotonically normal (in the sense of [6]), and (2) (Intermediate Value Theorem) the pairwise continuous image of a pairwise connected bitopological space in a selective ray bispace is an interval. We also obtain conditions for the equality of the de Groot dual (see [4]) and the ray dual (see [5]) of a ray topology and show that a selective ray topology is compact if and only if it is skew compact.     

On Exponentiable Morphisms in Classical Algebra

We study exponentiability of homomorphisms in varieties of universal algebras close to classical ones. After describing an “almost folklore” general result, we present a purely algebraic proof of “étale implies exponentiable”, alternative to the topologically motivated proof given in one of our previous papers, in a different context. We prove that only isomorphisms are exponentiable homomorphisms in ideal determined varieties and extend this to ideal determined categories. Finally, we give a complete characterization of exponentiable homomorphisms of semimodules over semirings.     

Stone style duality for distributive nearlattices

The aim of this paper is to study the variety of distributive nearlattices with greatest element. We will define the class of N-spaces as sober-like topological spaces with a basis of open, compact, and dually compact subsets satisfying an additional condition. We will show that the category of distributive nearlattices with greatest element whose morphisms are semi-homomorphisms is dually equivalent to the category of N-spaces with certain relations, called N-relations. In particular, we give a duality for the category of distributive nearlattices with homomorphisms. Finally, we apply these results to characterize topologically the one-to-one and onto homomorphisms, the subalgebras, and the lattice of the congruences of a distributive nearlattice.