Topological *-autonomous categories,revisited
During February, I gave a series of talks based on a paper published ten years ago in TAC, called "Topological *-autonomous categories". While preparing the lectures I came on a number of serious defects in that paper. One curious fact is that I mentioned as motivation is a question from Andre Joyal whether the results for real and complex topological vector spaces were also valid for vector spaces over the p-adic completions of the rationals. But I never addressed that question in the paper, let alone solved it. I have now prepared a paper, "Topological *-autonomous categories, revisited" which fixes all the deficiencies and also answers Joyal's question (it is valid for all locally compact fields, which includes those p-adic completions as well as their finite extensions. Similar results hold for the t-adic completions of the Laurent series rings Z_p{t}. The paper is on my web site. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]
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Michael Barr