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Real spectrum versus $\ell$-spectrum via Brumfiel spectrum

Rings and Algebras 2017-07-20 v2

Abstract

It is well known that the real spectrum of any commutative unital ring, and the {\ell}-spectrum of any Abelian lattice-ordered group with order-unit, are all completely normal spectral spaces. We prove the following results: (1) Every real spectrum can be embedded, as a spectral subspace, into some {\ell}-spectrum. (2) Not every real spectrum is an {\ell}-spectrum. (3) A spectral subspace of a real spectrum may not be a real spectrum. (4) Not every {\ell}-spectrum can be embedded, as a spectral subspace, into a real spectrum. (5) There exists a completely normal spectral space which cannot be embedded , as a spectral subspace, into any {\ell}-spectrum. The commutative unital rings and Abelian lattice-ordered groups in (2), (3), (4) all have cardinality 1\aleph 1 , while the spectral space of (5) has a basis of cardinality 2\aleph 2. Moreover, (3) solves a problem by Mellor and Tressl.

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@article{arxiv.1706.09802,
  title  = {Real spectrum versus $\ell$-spectrum via Brumfiel spectrum},
  author = {Friedrich Wehrung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09802},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

24 pages.Misprints v1: In the Abstract, the last (4) should be (5). In Proposition 4.3, spectral --> generalized spectral.Main change from v1 to v2: the observation that real spectra = unital Brumfiel spectra