Nearly spectral spaces (Q2010851)

A spectral space is a topological space homeomorphic to the prime spectrum of a commutative unitary ring equipped with the Zariski topology. Hochster showed that a topological space is spectral if and only if it is compact, sober, admitting a basis of open compact spaces closed under finite intersections. In this interesting paper the authors generalize this notion for commutative rings (not necessarily unitary) and call them almost spectral spaces. This type of spaces, as shown in Theorem 8, is exactly the up-spectral spaces introduced by Echi, Gargouri and the reviewer in [\textit{O. Echi} et al., Topol. Proc. 32, 153--166 (2008; Zbl 1160.54008)], and they give the characterization of these spaces in the language of prime spectra of commutative rings and distributive lattices. Finally Lemma 1 and Proposition 5 are known from [loc. cit.]