Duality theory for enriched Priestley spaces Dirk Hofmann and Pedro Nora∗ Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications, Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro, Portugal. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
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[email protected] The term Stone-type duality often refers to a dual equivalence between a category of lattices or other partially ordered structures on one side and a category of topo- logical structures on the other. This paper is part of a larger endeavour that aims to extend a web of Stone-type dualities from ordered to metric structures and, more generally, to quantale-enriched categories. In particular, we improve our previous work and show how certain duality results for categories of [0, 1]-enriched Priest- ley spaces and [0, 1]-enriched relations can be restricted to functions. In a broader context, we investigate the category of quantale-enriched Priestley spaces and contin- uous functors, with emphasis on those properties which identify the algebraic nature of the dual of this category. 1 Introduction Naturally, the starting point of our investigation of Stone-type dualities is Stone’s classical 1936 duality result (1.i) BooSp ∼ BAop for Boolean algebras and homomorphisms together with its generalisation Spec ∼ DLop to distributive lattices and homomorphisms obtained shortly afterwards in [Stone, 1938]. Here BooSp denotes the category of Boolean spaces1 and continuous maps, and Spec the category of spectral spaces and spectral maps (see also [Hochster, 1969]). In this paper we will often work ∗This work is supported by the ERDF – European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Pro- gramme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation – COMPETE 2020 Programme, by German Research Council (DFG) under project GO 2161/1-2, and by The Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA) through the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), references UIDB/04106/2020 and UIDP/04106/2020.