A characterisation of lattice-ordered Abelian groups (Q1319325)

It is pointed out that it is possible to define the prime ideal spectrum of any ordered Abelian group with distributive ideal lattice, and that this provides a point of contrast between the Riesz interpolation property, which (at least in the case of a countable group) does not impinge on the spectrum, and the lattice property, which -- in the presence of the interpolation property, and the well-known local property that prime quotients are totally ordered -- is determined by the spectrum. (The determining property is that the intersection of two compact open subsets is compact).