Fundamental topological phenomena in condensed matter physics are associated with a quantized electromagnetic response in units of fundamental constants. Recently, it has been predicted theoretically that the time-reversal invariant topological insulator in three dimensions exhibits a topological magnetoelectric effect quantized in units of the fine structure constant α=e²/ℏc. In this Letter, w...

Let X be a topological space and R be a subring of RX. By determining some special topologies on X associated with the subring R, characterizations of maximal fixxed and maximal growing ideals in R of the form Mx(R) are given. Moreover, the classes of zR-ideals and z0R-ideals are introduced in R which are topological generalizations of z-ideals and z0-ideals of C(X), respectively. Various c...

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a concept of$L$-fuzzifying topological groups (here $L$ is a completelydistributive lattice) and discuss some of their basic properties andthe structures. We prove that its corresponding $L$-fuzzifyingneighborhood structure is translation invariant. A characterizationof such topological groups in terms of the corresponding$L$-fuzzifying neighborhoo...