for any reduced commutative $f$-ring with identity and bounded inversion, we show that a condition which is obviously necessary for the socle of the ring to coincide with the socle of its bounded part, is actually also sufficient. the condition is that every minimal ideal of the ring consist entirely of bounded elements. it is not too stringent, and is satisfied, for instance, by rings of conti...

Real-valued functions of a real variable which are continuous with respect to the density topology on both the domain and the range are called density continuous. A typical continuous function is nowhere density continuous. The same is true of a typical homeomorphism of the real line. A subset of the real line is the set of points of discontinuity of a density continuous function if and only if...

We develop the flow analog of the classical Yosida adjunction between spaces and archimedean lattice-ordered groups with strong unit. A product of this development is the flow counterpart of the classical compactification of a space. We characterize those flows which are compactifiable, i.e., dense subflows of a compact flow. Finally, we exhibit a duality between the compactifications of a give...