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Recently Ball introduced the remarkable concept of truncated vector lattices and studied their representations by continuous functions. Weakening the original Ball definition, we introduce the notion of an unitization of a truncated vector lattice T and we prove that T has a smallest unitization \(T^{*}\), called the Alexandroff unitization of T. We show that \(T^{*}\) has universal properties and we prove that T is dense in \(T^{*}\) if and only if T is not unital. Otherwise, T and its polar are cardinal summands for \(T^{*}\). All these facts are also interpreted in category-theoretic terms.
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Boulabiar, K., Hafsi, H. & Mahfoudhi, M. Alexandroff unitization of a truncated vector lattice. Algebra Univers. 79, 48 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-018-0532-x
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Keywords
- Extension
- Alexandroff unitization
- Truncated vector lattice
- Truncation homomorphism
- Truncation unit
- Unital lattice homomorphism
- Unital vector lattice
- Unitization
- Weak unit