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Keywords:
Dugundji space; projective Boolean algebra; profinite lattice; supercompact
Summary:
We prove what the title says. It then follows that zero-dimensional Dugundji space are supercompact. Moreover, their Boolean algebras of clopen subsets turn out to be semigroup algebras.
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