We introduce Priestley rings of upsets (of a poset) and prove that inequivalent Priestley ring representations of a bounded distributive lattice L are in 1-1 correspondence with dense subspaces of the Priestley space of L. This generalizes a 1955 result of Bauer that inequivalent reduced field representations of a Boolean algebra B are in 1-1 correspondence with dense subspaces of the Stone spa...

We introduce generalized Priestley quasi-orders and show that subalgebras of bounded distributive meet-semilattices are dually characterized by means of generalized Priestley quasi-orders. This generalizes the well-known characterization of subalgebras of bounded distributive lattices by means of Priestley quasiorders (Adams, Algebra Univers 3:216–228, 1973; Cignoli et al., Order 8(3):299– 315,...

In this note we prove several duality theorems in lattice theory. We also discuss the connection between spectral spaces and Priestley spaces, and interpret Priestley duality in terms of spectral spaces. The organization of this note is as follows. In the first section we collect appropriate definitions and basic results common to many of the various topics. The next four sections consider Birk...

Recently, several authors extended Priestley duality for distributive lattices [9] to other classes of algebras, such as, e.g. distributive lattices with operators [7], MV -algebras [8], MTL and IMTL algebras [2]. In [5] necessary and sufficient conditions for a normally presented variety to be naturally dualizable, in the sense of [6], i.e. with respect to a discrete topology, have been provid...

If U and V are topologies on an abstract set X, then the triple (X, U, V) is a bitopological space. Using the theorem of Priestley on the representation of distributive lattices, results of Dilworth concerning the normal completion of the lattice of bounded, continuous, realvalued functions on a topological space are extended to include the lattice of bounded, semi-continuous, real-valued funct...

Let P be a configuration, i.e., a finite poset with top element. Let Forb(P ) be the class of bounded distributive lattices L whose Priestley space P(L) contains no copy of P . We show that the following are equivalent: Forb(P ) is first-order definable, i.e., there is a set of first-order sentences in the language of bounded lattice theory whose satisfaction characterizes membership in Forb(P ...

the starting point of this paper is given by priestley’s papers, where a theory of representation of distributive lattices is presented. the purpose of this paper is to develop a representation theory of fuzzy distributive lattices in the finite case. in this way, some results of priestley’s papers are extended. in the main theorem, we show that the category of finite fuzzy priestley space...

in this paper, a new definition of fuzzy bounded sets and totallyfuzzy bounded sets is introduced and properties of such sets are studied. thena relation between totally fuzzy bounded sets and n-compactness is discussed.finally, a geometric characterization for fuzzy totally bounded sets in i- topologicalvector spaces is derived.