Profinite algebras and affine boundedness

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• 作者：Friedrich Martin Schneider ; ^{martin.schneider@tu-dresden.de" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Jens Zumbrä ; gel ; ^{jens.zumbraegel@tu-dresden.de" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Topological algebra ; Universal algebra ; Stone space ; Translation monoid
• 刊名：Advances in Mathematics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：10 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：305
• 期：Complete
• 页码：661-681
• 全文大小：447 K

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We prove a characterization of profinite algebras, i.e., topological algebras that are isomorphic to a projective limit of finite discrete algebras. In general profiniteness concerns both the topological and algebraic characteristics of a topological algebra, whereas for topological groups, rings, semigroups, and distributive lattices, profiniteness turns out to be a purely topological property as it is equivalent to the underlying topological space being a Stone space.

Condensing the core idea of those classical results, we introduce the concept of affine boundedness for an arbitrary universal algebra and show that for an affinely bounded topological algebra over a compact signature profiniteness is equivalent to the underlying topological space being a Stone space. Since groups, semigroups, rings, and distributive lattices are indeed affinely bounded algebras over finite signatures, all these known cases arise as special instances of our result. Furthermore, we present some additional applications concerning topological semirings and their modules, as well as distributive associative algebras. We also deduce that any affinely bounded simple compact algebra over a compact signature is either connected or finite. Towards proving the main result, we also establish that any topological algebra is profinite if and only if its underlying space is a Stone space and its translation monoid is equicontinuous.