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| Format: | Preprint |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04079 |
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- From the original PREFACE: The rings of quotients recently introduced by Johnson and Utumi are applied to the ring $C(X)$ of all continuous real-valued functions on a completely regular space $X$. Let $Q(X)$ denote the maximal ring of quotients of $C(X)$; then $Q(X)$ may be realized as the ring of all continuous functions on the dense open sets of $X$ (modulo an obvious equivalence relation). In special cases (e.g., for metric $X$), $Q(X)$ reduces to the classical ring of quotients of $C(X)$ (formed with respect to the regular elements), but in general, the classical ring is only a proper sub-ring of $Q(X)$.