Let $L$ be a completely regular frame and $mathcal{R}L$ be the ring of real-valued continuous functions on $L$. We consider the set $$mathcal{R}_{infty}L = {varphi in mathcal{R} L : uparrow varphi( dfrac{-1}{n}, dfrac{1}{n}) mbox{ is a compact frame for any $n in mathbb{N}$}}.$$ Suppose that $C_{infty} (X)$ is the family of all functions $f in C(X)$ for which the set ${x in X: |f(x)|geq dfrac{1...

In this paper a particular case of z-ideals, called strongly z-ideal, is defined by introducing zero sets in pointfree topology. We study strongly z-ideals, their relation with z-ideals and the role of spatiality in this relation. For strongly z-ideals, we analyze prime ideals using the concept of zero sets. Moreover, it is proven that the intersection of all zero sets of a prime ideal of C(L),...

Let A be a local ring with 2 invertible. It is known that the localization of the cohomology ring H∗ ét(A,Z/2) with respect to the class (−1) ∈ H1 ét(A,Z/2) is isomorphic to the ring C(sperA,Z/2) of continuous Z/2-valued functions on the real spectrum of A. Let In(A) denote the powers of the fundamental ideal in the Witt ring of symmetric bilinear forms over A. The starting point of this articl...

Let X be a completely regular space and let A(X) be a ring of continuous real-valued functions onX which is closed under local bounded inversion. We show that the structure space of A(X) is homeomorphic to a quotient of the Stone–Čech compactification of X. We use this result to show that any realcompactification of X is homeomorphic to a subspace of the structure space of some ring of continuo...

For a Tychonoff space $X$, we denote by $C_p(X)$ the space of all real-valued continuous functions on $X$ with the topology of pointwise convergence.  We study a functional characterization of the covering property of Hurewicz.

Introduction. Let Y be a connected, noncompact Riemann surface, and let A be the ring of all analytic functions on Y. It is known that the ideal theory of the ring A is strikingly similar to the ideal theory of the ring C(X) of all real valued continuous functions on a completely regular topological space X. We show that locally much of the ideal theory of A can be recovered from the ideal theo...