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Characterising complete boolean algebras in terms of pure essentialness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Kiran R. Bhutani
Kiran R. Bhutani
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. 20064, United States of America
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Abstract

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We discuss purity and pure essentialness of abelian groups in a topos of sheaves on a locale and show that purity is not a local property. We prove that is divisible if and only if it is pure in every extension, and give an example of a category in winch absolutely pure does not imply divisible. We discuss uniform abelian groups and show that each AU uniform in Ab does not imply that A is uniform in

Banaschewski showed that the pure subgroups of are exactly of the type for the different . We show that is essential in if and only if U is dense in , Finally, we characterise as complete boolean algebras the locales for which the only pure and essential subgroup of is .

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Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , August 1988 , pp. 23 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1988

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