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topological ring  

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  • In mathematics, a topological ring is a ring that is also a topological space such that both the addition and the multiplication are continuous as maps:
    where carries the product topology. That means is an additive topological group and a multiplicative topological semigroup. Topological rings are fundamentally related to topological fields and arise naturally while studying them, since for example completion of a topological field may be a topological ring which is not a field.
    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_ring)

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