On a class of countable Boolean inverse monoids and Matui's spatial realization theorem

2014/07/06 by Lawson, Mark V
#Category Theory (math.CT) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1407.1473

Abstract

We introduce a class of inverse monoids that can be regarded as non-commutative generalizations of Boolean algebras. These inverse monoids are related to a class of étale topological groupoids, under a non-commutative generalization of classical Stone duality. Furthermore, and significantly for this paper, they arise naturally in the theory of dynamical systems as developed by Matui. We are thereby able to reinterpret a theorem of Matui on a class of étale groupoids, in the spirit of Rubin's theorem, as an equivalent theorem about a class of inverse monoids. The inverse monoids in question may be viewed as the countably infinite generalizations of finite symmetric inverse monoids. Their groups of units therefore generalize the finite symmetric groups and include amongst their number the Thompson groups G_n,1.

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