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Every countably presented formal topology is spatial, classically

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Silvio Valentini*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Università di Padova, Via G. Belzoni N.7, 1-35131 Padova, Italy. E-mail: silvio@math.unipd.it

Abstract

By using some classical reasoning we show that any countably presented formal topology, namely, a formal topology with a countable axiom set, is spatial.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2006

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