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and the category of Stone spaces. This duality means that in addition to the correspondence between Boolean algebras and their Stone spaces, each
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Hausdorff spaces) and continuous maps (respectively, perfect maps) was obtained by G. D. Dimov (respectively, by H. P. Doctor).
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between the categories. This was an early example of a nontrivial duality of categories.
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An extension of the classical Stone duality to the category of Boolean spaces (that is,
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that emerged in the first half of the 20th century. The theorem was first proved by
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or a weakened form of it. Specifically, the theorem is equivalent to the
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is isomorphic to the algebra of clopen subsets of its Stone space
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Every Boolean algebra is isomorphic to a certain field of sets
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corresponds in a natural way to a continuous function from
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Stone's representation theorem for distributive lattices
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of homomorphisms into the two-element Boolean algebra.
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Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras
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mathematics
Boolean algebra
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field of sets
Boolean algebra
Marshall H. Stone
spectral theory
operators
Hilbert space
Boolean algebra
topological space
Stone space
ultrafilters
homomorphisms
two-element Boolean algebra
basis
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clopen
topology of pointwise convergence
nets
compact
totally disconnected
Hausdorff space
category theory
duality

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