Dagger completions and bornological torsion-freeness

Abstract

We define a dagger algebra as a bornological algebra over a discrete valuation ring with three properties that are typical of Monsky-Washnitzer algebras, namely, completeness, bornological torsion-freeness and a certain spectral radius condition. We study inheritance properties of the three properties that define a dagger algebra. We describe dagger completions of bornological algebras in general and compute some noncommutative examples.

Added result on bornological torsion-freeness of tensor products, some changes to exposition