Categorical Extension of Dualities: From Stone to de Vries and Beyond, I

Abstract

Propounding a general categorical framework for the extension of dualities, we present a new proof of the de Vries Duality Theorem for the category $\bf KHaus$ of compact Hausdorff spaces and their continuous maps, as an extension of a restricted Stone duality. Then, applying a dualization of the categorical framework to the de Vries duality, we give an alternative proof of the extension of the de Vries duality to the category $\bf Tych$ of Tychonoff spaces that was provided by Bezhanishvili, Morandi and Olberding. In the process of doing so, we obtain new duality theorems for both categories, $\bf{KHaus}$ and $\bf Tych$.