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A short proof of the Schröder–Simpson Theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

JEAN GOUBAULT-LARRECQ*
Affiliation:
ENS Cachan, 61, Avenue du Président-Wilson, 94230 Cachan, France Email: goubault@lsv.ens-cachan.fr

Abstract

We give a short and elementary proof of the Schröder–Simpson Theorem, which states that the space of all continuous maps from a given space X to the non-negative reals with their Scott topology is the cone-theoretic dual of the probabilistic powerdomain on X.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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