A partial order generalization of Alexander's subbase theorem

Abstract

Alexander's Subbase Theorem is generalized for partially ordered sets. Our generalization is nontrivial inasmuch as Alexander's Theorem pertains to the partially ordered set (T, ∪) whereT is the set of all the open sets of a topological space and thus$(\overline T ,\underline C )$ is a complete partially ordered set which is also join infinite distributive, whereas here our generalization pertains to any partially ordered set with a maximum 1 and which satisfies the rather weak «distributivity» condition given by (1) below.