Topological duality and lattice expansions. I: A topological construction of canonical extensions. (Q2449453)

There are two main objectives of the paper: to prove purely topological duality theorems for semilattices and bounded lattices, and to show that this topological duality provides a construction of canonical extensions of bounded lattices. In previously known dualities for semilattices and bounded lattices, the dual spaces are compact \(0\)-dimensional spaces with additional algebraic structure. In the paper dual categories are presented, in which the spaces are characterized purely in topological terms, with no additional structure. Consequently, the results can be seen as generalizing Stone's duality for distributive lattices rather than Priestley's.