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A constructive Galois connection between closure and interior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Francesco Ciraulo
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Padova, Via Trieste, 63 1-35121 Padova, Italy, E-mail: ciraulo@math.unipd.it
Giovanni Sambin
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Padova, Via Trieste, 63 1-35121 Padova, Italy, E-mail: sambin@math.unipd.it

Abstract

We construct a Galois connection between closure and interior operators on a given set. All arguments are intuitionistically valid. Our construction is an intuitionistic version of the classical correspondence between closure and interior operators via complement.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2012

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