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A structure space is a quadrupleX=(X, d, A, P), where for some setR, X ⊂A=2R,d:X×X →A is defined byd(I, J)=J−I, andP is the family of cofinite subsets ofR. Forr ε P, I ε X, N r (I)={J ε X: d(I, J) ⊂r},To(X)={Q ⊂X: if x ε Q there is anr ε P such thatN r (x)\( \subseteq\)Q}. ThenTo(X) is a (not usually Hausdorff) topology onX called the hull-kernel topology. Replacing d byd *, whered * (I, J)=d(J, I), or byd s, whered s (I, J.)=d(I, J) ∪d * (I, J), and proceeding in the obvious way yields thedual hull-kernel topology To(X *) andsymmetric topology To(X s). The latter is always a zero-dimensional Hausdorff space. When R is a commutative ring with identity andX is a collection of proper prime ideals ofR, To(X s) is usually called thepatch topology. Our generality enables us to improve on known results in the case of space of prime ideals and to apply this theory to a wide variety of algebraic structures. In particular, we establish criteria for a subspace of a structure space to be closed in the symmetric topology; we establish a duality between families of maximal elements in the hull-kernel topology and families of minimal elements in the dual hull-kernel topology of subspaces that are closed in the symmetric topology; we use topological constructions to generalize certain ring theoretic notions, such as radical ideals an annihilator ideals; we use this theory to obtain new results about subspaces of the space prime ideals of a reduced, commutative ring.
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Henriksen, M., Kopperman, R. A general theory of structure spaces with applications to spaces of prime ideals. Algebra Universalis 28, 349–376 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01191086
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