The prime and maximal spectra and the reticulation of BL-algebras (Q1407203)

BL-algebras are the algebras of Hájek's Basic Logic [see \textit{P. Hájek}, Metamathematics of fuzzy logic. Trends in Logic -- Studia Logica Library 4, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (1998; Zbl 0937.03030)]. In the paper under review the author investigates the prime and the maximal spectrum of BL algebras. Equipped with the usual hull-kernel topology, the former turns out to be a spectral space, and the latter a compact Hausdorff space. In the final part of the paper the authors gives the BL-algebraic counterpart of the reticulation functor, along the lines of the Simmons functor (for commutative rings) and of the Belluce functor (for noncommutative rings and MV-algebras). The reticulation functor sends every BL algebra \(A\) into a normal completely normal lattice \(B\) in such a way that the prime spectra of \(A\) and \(B\) are homeomorphic.