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14 February 2020, Cool Logic, Joseph McDonald

Speaker: Joseph McDonald
Title: Choice-Free Duality for the Stone Space of an Ortholattice
Date: Friday 14 February 2020
Time: 18:30-19:30
Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam

In this talk, I will exposit the fundamental ideas underlying my current independent research project with Nick Bezhanishvili, in which I am attempting to give a choice-free topological representation of ortholattices. The standard topological representation of ortholattices, distributive lattices, and Boolean algebras, relies upon a nonconstructive choice principle, equivalent to the Boolean prime ideal theorem - which guarantees the existence of sufficiently many ultrafilters. My topological representation of ortholattices combines Bimbo's 2007 orthospace approach to choice-dependent Stone duality for ortholattices with Bezhanishvili and Holliday's 2020 spectral space approach to choice-free Stone duality for Boolean algebras. My aim for this talk is to give a gentle and welcoming overview of my research project and its surrounding subject matter.

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