There is a natural bijective correspondence between the compactifications of a Tychonoff space X, the totally bounded uniformities on X, and the unital C∗-subalgebras of C∗(X) (the algebra of bounded continuous complex valued functions on X) with what we call the completely regular separation property. The correspondence of compactifications with totally bounded uniformities is well know and ca...

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...