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Automorphism Groups of Denumerable Boolean Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ralph Mckenzie
Ralph Mckenzie*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California
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Abstract

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We are concerned with the extent to which the structure of a Boolean algebra (or BA, for brevity) is reflected in its group of automorphisms, Aut . In particular, for which algebras can one conclude that if Aut Aut , then Monk has conjectured [3] that this implication holds for denumerable BA's with at least one atom. We shall refute his conjecture, but show that the implication does hold if and are denumerable, if each has at least one atom, and if the sum of the atoms exists in . In fact, under those assumptions the algebra 21 can be rather neatly recovered from its abstract automorphism group.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , 01 June 1977 , pp. 466 - 471
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1977

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