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Whales and the universal completion

Author(s): Gerard Buskes; Arnoud van Rooij
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 423-427.
MSC (1991): Primary 46A40
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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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Additional Information:

Gerard Buskes
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677

Arnoud van Rooij
Affiliation: Mathematical Institute, The University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-96-02839-0
PII: S 0002-9939(96)02839-0
Received by editor(s): January 10, 1994
Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 4, 1994
Additional Notes: Both authors acknowledge partial support from NATO grant 940605.
Dedicated: Dedicated to the memory of Bill Causey
Communicated by: Palle E. T. Jorgensen
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society


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