The absolute of a topological space and its application to Abelian \(l\)-groups (Q1022480)

The paper arose from a study of essential extensions of an Abelian lattice-ordered group in terms of its spectrum. In the first part of the article the author develops an axiomatic treatment of the absolute in the category of all topological spaces and characterizes it as a cover with respect to the full subcategory of extremally disconnected spaces. As an application in the second part the strongly projectable hull of an Abelian \(l\)-group is obtained as a unique lifting of the absolute of its spectrum.