Priestley spaceIn mathematics, a Priestley space is an ordered topological space with special properties. Priestley spaces are named after Hilary Priestley who introduced and investigated them. Priestley spaces play a fundamental role in the study of distributive lattices. In particular, there is a duality ("Priestley duality") between the of Priestley spaces and the category of bounded distributive lattices. A Priestley space is an ordered topological space (X,τ,≤), i.e.
AntimatroidIn mathematics, an antimatroid is a formal system that describes processes in which a set is built up by including elements one at a time, and in which an element, once available for inclusion, remains available until it is included. Antimatroids are commonly axiomatized in two equivalent ways, either as a set system modeling the possible states of such a process, or as a formal language modeling the different sequences in which elements may be included.
AntichaîneEn mathématiques, plus précisément en théorie des ordres, une antichaîne est une partie d'un ensemble partiellement ordonné dont les éléments sont deux à deux incomparables. (Par opposition aux chaînes qui forment parties d'un ensemble dont les éléments sont toujours deux à deux comparables.) Dit autrement, soit E un ensemble muni d'une relation d'ordre ≤, un sous-ensemble A est une antichaîne de E si pour tout x,y de A, Une antichaîne est dite maximale si elle n'est incluse (strictement) dans aucune autre antichaîne.
Stone dualityIn mathematics, there is an ample supply of categorical dualities between certain of topological spaces and categories of partially ordered sets. Today, these dualities are usually collected under the label Stone duality, since they form a natural generalization of Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras. These concepts are named in honor of Marshall Stone. Stone-type dualities also provide the foundation for pointless topology and are exploited in theoretical computer science for the study of formal semantics.
Distributive latticeIn mathematics, a distributive lattice is a lattice in which the operations of join and meet distribute over each other. The prototypical examples of such structures are collections of sets for which the lattice operations can be given by set union and intersection. Indeed, these lattices of sets describe the scenery completely: every distributive lattice is—up to isomorphism—given as such a lattice of sets. As in the case of arbitrary lattices, one can choose to consider a distributive lattice L either as a structure of order theory or of universal algebra.
Spectral spaceIn mathematics, a spectral space is a topological space that is homeomorphic to the spectrum of a commutative ring. It is sometimes also called a coherent space because of the connection to coherent topos. Let X be a topological space and let K(X) be the set of all compact open subsets of X. Then X is said to be spectral if it satisfies all of the following conditions: X is compact and T0. K(X) is a basis of open subsets of X. K(X) is closed under finite intersections. X is sober, i.e.
Ensemble partiellement ordonnéEn mathématiques, un ensemble partiellement ordonné (parfois appelé poset d'après l'anglais partially ordered set) formalise et généralise la notion intuitive d'ordre ou d'arrangement entre les éléments d'un ensemble. Un ensemble partiellement ordonné est un ensemble muni d'une relation d'ordre qui indique que pour certains couples d'éléments, l'un est plus petit que l'autre. Tous les éléments ne sont pas forcément comparables, contrairement au cas d'un ensemble muni d'un ordre total.
