The Zariski topology and essential extensions of semilattices (Q2639880)

The authors study the relationship between the extension and the Zariski topology of semilattices. The basic role is played by the essential completion of a semilattice L. This completion may be realized as the smallest subsemilattice of the injective hull of L which contains L and has the appropriate completeness properties. The Zariski topology on a semilattice L is the coarsest topology for which the congruence sets of pairs of polynomials in a single indeterminate are closed. The main results describe the Hausdorff Zariski topology on semilattices, namely semilattices for which the Zariski topology is Hausdorff, and connections with essential completion of semilattices.