Do complete atomic boolean algebras form a full subcategory of boolean algebras?

Question

I would like to know if a boolean morphism (that is an application that respects $\vee, \wedge, \neg, 0,1$) between two complete atomic boolean algebras is necessarily complete (it respects also infinite $\vee$ and $\wedge$)?

I am tempted to say yes because of the duality between complete atomic boolean algebras and sets, but I cannot find a proof.

Thank you!

Answer 1

No. For instance, let $X$ be an infinite set and $U$ be a nonprincipal ultrafilter on $X$. Then there is a Boolean homomorphism $f:P(X)\to\{0,1\}$ which maps the elements of $U$ to $1$ and the elements of $X\setminus U$ to $0$. This homomorphism $f$ is not complete since it maps every singleton to $0$ but does not map every arbitrary join of singletons (i.e., every set) to $0$.

Answer 2

Up to isomorphism, a complete and atomic Boolean algebra is a powerset algebra, and powerset algebras are always complete and atomic.
So, without loss of generality, we can think of complete and atomic Boolean algebras as being exactly the same as powerset algebras.

Now, let $\mathbf A$ be one such algebra, that is, there exists a set $X$ such that $\mathbf A = \langle \mathscr P(X), \cap, \cup, ', \varnothing, X \rangle$.
Let $Y$ be the set of ultrafilters of $\mathbf A$; for example, for each $x \in X$, the set $U_x = \{Z \in \mathscr P(X) : x \in Z\}$ is an ultrafilter (the principal ultrafilter generated by $\{x\}$, having $\{x\}$ as its infimum).
Let $\mathbf B = \langle \mathscr P(Y), \cap, \cup, ', \varnothing, Y \rangle$ be the Boolean algebra of the powerset of $Y$.

Using properties of ultrafilters, one can easily prove that $\Phi : \mathbf A \to \mathbf B$ given by $$\Phi(a) = \{ U \in Y : a \in U \}$$ is a Boolean algebra homomorphism.
Now consider the set $At_A$ of atoms of $\mathbf A$. As in any atomic Boolean algebra, $\bigvee At_A = \top_A$ which is $X$, in this case.
For $a = \{x\}$, with $x \in X$ (that is, $a \in At_A$), $$\Phi(a) = \{U \in Y:\{x\} \in U\} = \{U_x\} \in At_B,$$ whence $\Phi(At_A) \subseteq At_B$.
If $\mathbf A$ is finite, then $\Phi$ is an isomorphism and so it is complete.
But if $\mathbf A$ is infinite, then it has at least one non-principal ultrafilter $U_0$, and so $\Phi(At_A) \neq At_B$, and therefore $$\bigvee \Phi(At_A) < \bigvee At_B = Y = \Phi(X) = \Phi\left(\bigvee At_A\right),$$ where the inequality holds because, in a Boolean algebra, the join of a proper subset of the atoms is less than the top element (it is the complement of the join of the remaining atoms).

We conclude that $\Phi$ is not a complete homomorphism.