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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827772403321

Autore

Goodearl K. R.

Titolo

The complete dimension theory of partially ordered systems with equivalence and orthogonality / / K.R. Goodearl, F. Wehrung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2005]

©2005

ISBN

1-4704-0432-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (134 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 831

Disciplina

510 s

511.3/3

Soggetti

Lattice theory

Boolean rings

Partial algebras

Modules (Algebra)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Volume 176, number 831 (third of 5 numbers)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-113) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""1-1. Background""; ""1-2. Results and methods""; ""1-3. Notation and terminology""; ""Chapter 2. Partial commutative monoids""; ""2-1. Basic results about partial commutative monoids""; ""2-2. Direct decompositions of partial refinement monoids""; ""2-3. Projections of partial refinement monoids""; ""2-4. General comparability""; ""2-5. Boolean-valued partial refinement monoids""; ""2-6. Least and largest difference functions""; ""Chapter 3. Continuous dimension scales""; ""3-1. Basic properties

the monoids Z[sub(γ)], R[sub(γ)], and 2[sub(γ)]""""3-2. Dedekind complete lattice-ordered groups""; ""3-3. Continuous functions on extremally disconnected topological spaces""; ""3-4. Completeness of the Boolean algebra of projections""; ""3-5. The elements (p | α)""; ""3-6. The dimension function Î?""; ""3-7. Projections on the directly finite elements""; ""3-8. Embedding arbitrary continuous dimension scales""; ""3-9. Uniqueness of the canonical embedding""; ""3-10. Continuous dimension scales which are proper classes""; ""Chapter 4. Espaliers"";



""4-1. The axioms""

""4-2. Purely infinite elements trim sequences""; ""4-3. Axiom (M6)""; ""4-4. D-universal classes of espaliers""; ""4-5. Existence of large constants""; ""Chapter 5. Classes of espaliers""; ""5-1. Abstract measure theory;  Boolean espaliers""; ""5-2. Conditionally complete, meet-continuous, relatively complemented, modular lattices""; ""5-3. Self-injective regular rings and nonsingular injective modules""; ""5-4. Projection lattices of W*- and AW*-algebras""; ""5-5. Concluding remarks""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""

""L""""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""