Abstractly constructed prime spectra (Q2073370)

If R is a commutative ring with identitity, it has long been known that its prime spectrum is a spectral (or ``coherent'') topological space: equivalently, it is sober and the family of compact open subsets is closed under finite intersections and forms a basis for the topology. This has been extended to unital commutative semirings by \textit{A. Peña} et al. [``Separation axioms and the prime spectrum of commutative semirings'', Rev. Notas de Mat. 5(2), No. 284, 66--82 (2009)], and to commutative monoids by \textit{R. Vale} [``A topological description of the space of prime ideals of a monoid'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1006.5687}]. Earlier results of \textit{I. Kaplansky} [Topics in commutative ring theory. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago, Department of Mathematics (1974; Zbl 0348.13001)] and \textit{L. P. Belluce} [Commun. Algebra 19, No. 7, 1855--1865 (1991; Zbl 0728.16002)] extend this to \emph{some} non-commutative unital rings. In this paper, the authors define a complete lattice to be \emph{multiplicative} if there is a product operation on its elements such that \(xy\leq x \wedge y\). The prime spectrum Spec(\(L\)) of any multiplicative complete lattice \(L\) is shown to be a sober space; and the authors give various sets of conditions for Spec(\(L\)) to be spectral. Several other interesting related results are also given.