By first describing the fixed maximal ideals of RL and those of its bounded part, R∗L, we show that every fixed maximal ideal of the bigger ring contracts to a fixed maximal ideal of the smaller ring, and every fixed maximal ideal of the smaller ring extends to a fixed maximal ideal of the bigger ring. However, the only instance where every maximal ideal of R∗L extends to a maximal ideal of RL ...

We continue the study of a lattice-ordered ring G(X), associated with the ring C(X). Following [10], X called RG when G(X) = C(Xδ). An RG-space must have a dense set of very weak P-points. It must have a dense set of almost-P-points if Xδ is Lindelöf, or if the continuum hypothesis holds and C(X) has small cardinality. Space which are RG must have finite Krull dimension when taken with respect ...

A base B for a space X is said to be sharp if, whenever x ∈ X and (Bn)n∈ω is a sequence of pairwise distinct elements of B each containing x, the collection { ⋂ j≤n Bj : n ∈ ω} is a local base at x. We answer questions raised by Alleche et al. and Arhangel’skĭı et al. by showing that a pseudocompact Tychonoff space with a sharp base need not be metrizable and that the product of a space with a ...