A fresh perspective on canonical extensions for bounded lattices. (Q395673)

In this paper the authors present a new approach to the canonical extension of a bounded lattice that includes the universal bounds, \(0\) and \(1\), in the signature. They explore in detail the interface between canonical extensions and duality theory for lattices, and a categorical context for these. The validation of their construction of the canonical extension is independent of pre-existing theory of canonical extensions for the variety of bounded lattices.