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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 iii Paper 20 4 iv Solution by
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The Booleanization of a locale is the sublocale with double-negation nucleus. A flat sublocale has a nucleus preserving finite joins, equivalently its fixed-element set is closed under ambient finite joins. For completeness, if a nucleus preserves finite joins then its fixed points are closed under them. Conversely, if fixed points are closed under joins, is fixed and bounds , giving ; monotonicity gives equality, and preservation of is precisely . Since , condition (iv) is exactly (iii). Together the preceding implications prove all four characterizations of an extremally disconnected locale.
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