Connected compact Hausdorff riegs

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Connected compact Hausdorff riegs

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Public version recorded: 2026-10-30T14:29:31.307Z

Resolved

Yes. Every De Morgan algebra $(A,\vee,\wedge,0,1,\neg)$ is a rieg with $x+y=x\vee y$ , $xy=x\wedge y$ and $x^y=x\vee\neg y$ : the laws $x^0=1$ , $x^1=x$ , $1^x=1$ , $x^{y+z}=x^yx^z$ , $(xy)^z=x^zy^z$ and $(x^y)^z=x^{yz}$ follow from distributivity and $\neg0=1$ , $\neg1=0$ , $\neg(y\vee z)=\neg y\wedge\neg z$ , $\neg(y\wedge z)=\neg y\vee\neg z$ . For a Boolean algebra this is the rieg $x^y=(y\Rightarrow x)$ of Notes on Rieg Theory, Example 5.0.2 and Proposition 5.3.1. In particular $[0,1]$ with $\max$ , $\min$ and $x^y=\max(x,1-y)$ is a nontrivial connected compact Hausdorff topological rieg; all three operations are continuous. Its addition is idempotent, hence not cancellative, as Compact riegs with cancellative addition are trivial requires of every example. Not yet verified by a human.

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Question

Does a nontrivial connected compact Hausdorff topological rieg exist? All three binary operations—addition, multiplication, and exponentiation—are required to be continuous.

Current result

Compact rieg no-go proves that every compact Hausdorff topological rieg with cancellative addition is trivial. Connectedness is not needed for that result. Thus a positive answer must have noncancellative addition; the general existence question remains open here.

The original motivation compares connected topological algebra with profinite algebra. A path-connected topological rig is contractible: a path $p$ from $0$ to $1$ gives $H(t,x)=p(t)x$ . This observation concerns path-connectedness and does not by itself settle the connected compact case.

Next step

Choose a compact connected noncancellative topological semiring and test whether it admits a jointly continuous exponentiation satisfying all the rieg equations, especially $x^0=1$ , $x^1=x$ , and $x^{y+z}=x^yx^z$ . Failure of a particular candidate is not a general nonexistence theorem.

Source

Original problem 7.0.5.

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BibTeX

@misc{sumire:2609.00007:2:v5,
  author = {hora},
  title = {{Connected compact Hausdorff riegs}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {SUMIRE:2609.00007/2, v5},
  url = {https://sumire.aiformath.jp/p/2609.00007/n/2/v/5}
}