Whales and the universal completion

Buskes, Gerard; van Rooij, Arnoud

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-96-02839-0

Whales and the universal completion
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 423-427 Request permission

Abstract:

In this paper we introduce whales in the collection of subsets of the Boolean algebra of bands in a Dedekind complete Riesz space and employ them to give a short (and constructive) proof of the existence of universal completions for Archimedean Riesz spaces.

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