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A Stone space is recovered from its clopens
Statement
ZF proves that for every Stone space , the map given by is a homeomorphism. BPI is not assumed.
Facts & Assumptions
Stone ultrafilter space and its clopen basis defines Stone spaces and the basic sets .
Generated filters and the complementary-pair tests gives the complementary-pair criterion for ultrafilters.
A space is compact exactly when every family of closed subsets with the finite intersection property has nonempty intersection gives a common point for every family of closed subsets of a compact space with FIP, in ZF.
Proof
Given: A compact Hausdorff space with a clopen basis.
For , the clopens containing include , exclude , are upward and intersection closed, and decide each pair . By F2 this is an ultrafilter, so is defined. If , Hausdorffness gives an open neighborhood of avoiding , and the clopen basis gives a clopen containing but not . Thus .
Let be an ultrafilter of clopens. Its finite intersections are members of and are nonempty, so its closed sets have FIP, including the empty intersection . F3 supplies . If a clopen containing were absent from , F2 would put in , contrary to the choice of . Hence . This point is unique by step 1.1.
For each clopen , the definitions give . Thus is continuous on the basic opens, hence on their unions. Surjectivity in step 2.1 gives as well. Every open set of is a union of clopens, so its image is a union of basic open sets; the inverse of the bijection is continuous. If , its clopen algebra is trivial, its ultrafilter space is empty, and the empty map is the asserted homeomorphism. The inverse is defined by the unique common point, without choice. QED.
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Sources
- Tressl, Stone Duality for Boolean Algebras, 3.1.6, pp. 11–12 (standard reference, not scraped)