Priestley style duality for distributive meet-semilattices (Q763299)

The authors generalize Priestley duality for distributive lattices to a duality for distributive meet-semilattices. A structure \(X= \langle X, \tau, \leq, X_0\rangle\) is called a generalized Priestley space if 1. \(\langle X, \tau, \leq \rangle\) is a Priestley space. 2. \(X_0\) is a dense subset of \(X\). 3. For each \(x\in X\) there is \(y\in X_0\) such that \(x\leq y\). 4. \(x\in X_0\) if and only if \(\mathcal{I}_x\) is up-directed. 5. For all \(x,y\in X\), \(x\leq y\) iff \((\forall U \in X^*)(x\in U \Rightarrow y\in U)\), where \(X^*\) is the set of \(X_0\)-admissible clopen up-sets of \(X\), where \(\mathcal{I}_x = \{ U \,|\, x\not\in U \;\text{and} \;U \;\text{is \;an} \;X_0 \text{-admissible \;clopen \;upset \;of } \;X\}\). Concerning the bounded distributive meet-semilattice, they prove: Theorem 5.8 (Representation Theorem). For each bounded distributive meet-semilattice \(L\), there exists a generalized Priestley space \(X\) such that \(L \cong X^*\). For generalized Priestley spaces \(X\) and \(Y\), a relation \(R\subseteq X\times Y\) is called a generalized Priestley morphism if the following two conditions are satisfied: 1. If not \(xRy\), then there is \(U\in Y^*\) such that \(y\not\in U\) and \(R[x]\subseteq U\). 2. If \(U\in Y^*\), then \(\square_R U \in X^*\), where \(\square_R U = \{ x\in X\,|\, (\forall y\in Y) (xRy \Rightarrow y\in U)\} = \{ x\in X \,|\, R[x]\subseteq U \}\). Then, for the category \textbf{GPS} of generalized Priestley spaces and generalized Priestley morphisms, they prove: Theorem 6.9. The category \textbf{BDM} is dually equivalent to the category \textbf{GPS}, where \textbf{BDM} is the category of bounded distributive meet-semilattices and meet-semilattice homomorphisms preserving top. The result above is extend to non-bounded cases. A structure \(X= \langle X, \tau, \leq, X_0 \rangle\) is called a \(*\)-generalized Priestley space if 1. \(\langle X, \tau, \leq \rangle\) is a Priestley space. 2. \(X_0\) is a dense subset of \(X\). 3. \(x\in X_0\) iff \(\mathcal{I}_x\) is non-empty and up-directed. 4. For all \(x,y\in X\), \(x\leq y\) iff \((\forall U \in X^*)(x\in U \Rightarrow y\in U)\). For the category \textbf{GPS\(^*\)} of \(*\)-generalized Priestley spaces and generalized Priestley morphisms, they prove the following result: Theorem 9.2. The category \textbf{DM} is dually equivalent to the category \textbf{GPS\(^*\)}, where \textbf{DM} is the category of distributive meet-semilattices and meet-semilattice homomorphisms.