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J. Harding has proved that the profinite limit of an algebra A in a finitely generated variety of monotone lattice expansions coincides with its canonical extension. In this note we drop the monotonicity of the additional operations and prove the same result.
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Presented by K. Kearnes.
The author acknowledges support from Project ISFL-1-143 of CAUL financed by FCT and FEDER.
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Gouveia, M.J. A note on profinite completions and canonical extensions. Algebra Univers. 64, 21–23 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-010-0083-2
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