# Universal Algebra Learning Seminar

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 — 3:30 PM EDT

Ross Willard, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Natural dualities for finitely generated quasi-varieties - definitions and first results"

I will present the basic definitions of natural duality theory developed by David Clark and Brian Davey.  One begins with a quasi-variety ISP($\mathbf{M}$) generated by a finite algebra $\mathbf{M}$, and chooses a relational structure $\mathbb{M}$ with the same universe as $\mathbf{M}$, endowed with the discrete topology.  For any algebra $\mathbf{A}$ belonging to the quasi-variety ISP($\mathbf{M}$), one can naturally interpret $\mathbb{X} := \mathrm{Hom}(\mathbf{A},\mathbf{M}$) as a structured Stone space living in a common category with $\mathbb{M}$.  $\mathbb{X}$ is the \emph{dual} of $\mathbf{A}$.  What is desired is that $\mathrm{Hom}(\mathbb{X},\mathbb{M})$, the \emph{double dual} of $\mathbf{A}$, be naturally interpretable as an algebra  isomorphic to $\mathbf{A}$ via the natural evaluation map.  Whether or not this is true (for all $\mathbf{A}$) depends on our choice of $\mathbb{M}$ (and, as we will see in future lectures, is impossible for some $\mathbf{M}$). In this lecture I will define these notions precisely and state some basic properties.

Location
MC 5403

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