Topological representation of precontact algebras

  • Authors:
  • Georgi Dimov;Dimiter Vakarelov

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Sofia University;Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Sofia University

  • Venue:
  • RelMiCS'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Relational Methods in Computer Science, Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Applications of Kleene Algebra
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The notions of 2-precontact and 2-contact spaces as well as of extensional (and other kinds) 3-precontact and 3-contact spaces are introduced. Using them, new representation theorems for precontact and contact algebras (satisfying some additional axioms) are proved. They incorporate and strengthen both the discrete and topological representation theorems from [3, 1, 2, 4, 10]. It is shown that there are bijective correspondences between such kinds of algebras and such kinds of spaces. In particular, such a bijective correspondence for the RCC systems of [8] is obtained, strengthening in this way the previous representation theorems from [4, 1].