Universal event spaces for an infinite Boolean algebra #
This file supplies two complementary universal realizations of a Boolean algebra.
PrimePoint BandstoneIndicatorare the usual Stone representation by characteristic functions on prime ideals. This representation is faithful and is convenient for stating Scott's finite-sum cancellation condition.ProbabilityPoint BandeventVectorevaluate an event at every finitely additive probability. Their real span is a normed order-unit space on which probabilities are exactly the point-evaluation positive normalized continuous linear functionals.
The second realization is used for the direct state correspondence below. Constructing the analogous functional on the Stone-indicator span requires the separate simple-function integration theorem for arbitrary finitely additive charges.
The probability-evaluation event space #
A point of the universal probability-evaluation space.
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The universal evaluation vector μ ↦ μ(a) of an event.
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The real normed space generated by universal event-evaluation vectors.
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The event vector as an element of EventSpan.
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Stone points and indicator vectors #
A Stone point of B, presented as a prime (equivalently maximal) ideal.
- ideal : Order.Ideal B
The ideal of events absent at this Stone point.
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The 0/1 value of an event at a Stone point.
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The characteristic vector of an event on the Stone points of B.
The convention is that a point lies in the event a exactly when its prime ideal
does not contain a.
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Stone indicators separate events, so the Stone representation is faithful.
Equality of two finite sums of event indicators.
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The two-valued finitely additive probability associated with a Stone point.
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Probability-evaluation vectors are also a faithful representation of events.
Pointwise positivity for a functional on the event span.
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A positive normalized bounded linear functional on the universal event span.
The continuous linear evaluator whose values on events give the probability.
- positive : IsPositive B self.functional
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Evaluation at a finitely additive probability is a positive normalized state.
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A positive normalized state restricts to a finitely additive probability on events.
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Finitely additive probabilities and positive normalized states on EventSpan
are canonically equivalent.
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