Recently, several authors extended Priestley duality for distributive lattices [9] to other classes of algebras, such as, e.g. distributive lattices with operators [7], MV -algebras [8], MTL and IMTL algebras [2]. In [5] necessary and sufficient conditions for a normally presented variety to be naturally dualizable, in the sense of [6], i.e. with respect to a discrete topology, have been provid...

In this note we prove several duality theorems in lattice theory. We also discuss the connection between spectral spaces and Priestley spaces, and interpret Priestley duality in terms of spectral spaces. The organization of this note is as follows. In the first section we collect appropriate definitions and basic results common to many of the various topics. The next four sections consider Birk...

We generalize Priestley duality for distributive lattices to a duality for distributive meet-semilattices. On the one hand, our generalized Priestley spaces are easier to work with than Celani’s DS-spaces, and are similar to Hansoul’s Priestley structures. On the other hand, our generalized Priestley morphisms are similar to Celani’s meet-relations and are more general than Hansoul’s morphisms....

[1] B. Banaschewski, Über nulldimensionale Räume, Math. Nache 13 (1955) 129-140. [2] F. Borceux and J. Janelidze, Galois Theories, Cambridge University Press (2001). [3] M. Dias and M. Sobral, Descent for Priestley Spaces, Appl. Categor. Struct 14 (2006) 229-241. [4] B. A. Davey and H. A. Priestley, Introduction to Lattices and Order, Cambridge Mathematical Texbooks (1990). [5] R. Engelking and...

Starting with the underlying motivation of developing a general theory of L-fuzzy sets where L is a multilattice (a particular case of non-deterministic algebra), we study the relationship between the crisp notions of congruence, homomorphism and substructure on some non-deterministic algebras which have been used in the literature, i.e. hypergroups, and join spaces. Moreover, we provide suitab...

A characterization of descent morphism in the category of Priestley spaces, as well as necessary and sufficient conditions for such morphisms to be effective are given. For that we embed this category in suitable categories of preordered topological spaces were descent and effective morphisms are described using the monadic description of descent.