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Summer 1991 An elementary nonstandard proof of Stone's representation theorem
Bernard Brunet
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Illinois J. Math. 35(2): 312-315 (Summer 1991). DOI: 10.1215/ijm/1255987899

Abstract

A neat nonstandard proof of Stone's representation theorem is given. Improving on previous proofs (Loeb [5], Brunet [2]), it uses the remarkably simple fact that infinitesimal members of a filter on $X$, in any enlargement, are always compact for a natural topology on ${}^{\ast}X$.

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Bernard Brunet. "An elementary nonstandard proof of Stone's representation theorem." Illinois J. Math. 35 (2) 312 - 315, Summer 1991. https://doi.org/10.1215/ijm/1255987899

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Published: Summer 1991
First available in Project Euclid: 19 October 2009

zbMATH: 0714.46055
MathSciNet: MR1091445
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/ijm/1255987899

Subjects:
Primary: 46E10
Secondary: 03H05 , 46E30 , 46S20 , 54J05

Rights: Copyright © 1991 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Vol.35 • No. 2 • Summer 1991
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