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Point at infinity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Niel Shell
Niel Shell
Affiliation:
The City College of New York (CUNY), Convent Avenue at 138th Street, New York, NY 10031, United States of America.
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Abstract

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We adjoin a point at infinity to a field with a ring topology and extend the topology by taking complements of bounded sets as neighbourhoods of infinity. We note some elementary relations between the topology on the field and the topology on the field with infinity adjoined.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , December 1988 , pp. 321 - 323
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1988

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