Generalizing Gelfand duality to Nachbin spaces

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Main Authors: Bezhanishvili, G., Morandi, P. J.
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author Bezhanishvili, G.
Morandi, P. J.
author_facet Bezhanishvili, G.
Morandi, P. J.
contents We introduce the notion of a Nachbin proximity on a bounded archimedean $\ell$-algebra (bal-algebra), and show that Gelfand duality lifts to yield a dual equivalence between the category of uniformly complete bal-algebras equipped with a closed Nachbin proximity and that of Nachbin spaces (compact ordered spaces). The key ingredients of the proof include appropriate generalizations of the Stone-Weierstrass theorem and Dieudonné's lemma. We also develop an alternate approach by means of bounded archimedean $\ell$-semialgebras (sbal-algebras), from which we derive De Rudder--Hansoul duality.
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spellingShingle Generalizing Gelfand duality to Nachbin spaces
Bezhanishvili, G.
Morandi, P. J.
Commutative Algebra
Functional Analysis
06F25, 13J25, 54C30, 54E05, 54F05
We introduce the notion of a Nachbin proximity on a bounded archimedean $\ell$-algebra (bal-algebra), and show that Gelfand duality lifts to yield a dual equivalence between the category of uniformly complete bal-algebras equipped with a closed Nachbin proximity and that of Nachbin spaces (compact ordered spaces). The key ingredients of the proof include appropriate generalizations of the Stone-Weierstrass theorem and Dieudonné's lemma. We also develop an alternate approach by means of bounded archimedean $\ell$-semialgebras (sbal-algebras), from which we derive De Rudder--Hansoul duality.
title Generalizing Gelfand duality to Nachbin spaces
topic Commutative Algebra
Functional Analysis
06F25, 13J25, 54C30, 54E05, 54F05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18807