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A Generalization of De Vries Duality Theorem

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Generalizing Duality Theorem of H. de Vries, we define a category which is dually equivalent to the category of locally compact Hausdorff spaces and perfect maps.

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Dedicated to Professor Walter Tholen on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

This paper was supported by the project no. 26/2006 “Categorical Topology” of the Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”.

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Dimov, G.D. A Generalization of De Vries Duality Theorem. Appl Categor Struct 17, 501–516 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10485-008-9144-5

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