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Motivated by certain types of ideals in pointfree functions rings, we define what we call P-sublocales in completely regular frames. They are the closed sublocales that are interior to the zero-sublocales containing them. We call an element of a frame L that induces a P-sublocale a P-element, and denote by \({{\,\mathrm{Pel}\,}}(L)\) the set of all such elements. We show that if L is basically disconnected, then \({{\,\mathrm{Pel}\,}}(L)\) is a frame and, in fact, a dense sublocale of L. Ordered by inclusion, the set \(\mathcal {S}_\mathfrak {p}(L)\) of P-sublocales of L is a complete lattice, and, for basically disconnected L, \(\mathcal {S}_\mathfrak {p}(L)\) is a frame if and only if \({{\,\mathrm{Pel}\,}}(L)\) is the smallest dense sublocale of L. Furthermore, for basically disconnected L, \(\mathcal {S}_\mathfrak {p}(L)\) is a sublocale of the frame \(\mathcal {S}_\mathfrak {c}(L)\) consisting of joins of closed sublocales of L if and only if L is Boolean. For extremally disconnected L, iterating through the ordinals (taking intersections at limit ordinals) yields an ordinal sequence
that stabilizes at an extremally disconnected P-frame, that we denote by \({{\,\mathrm{Pel}\,}}^\infty (L)\). It turns out that \({{\,\mathrm{Pel}\,}}^\infty (L)\) is the reflection to L from extremally disconnected P-frames when morphisms are suitably restricted.
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Dube, T. Concerning P-Sublocales and Disconnectivity. Appl Categor Struct 27, 365–383 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10485-019-09559-9
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Keywords
- Completely regular frame
- \(F^\prime \)-frame
- Basically disconnected frame
- Extremally disconnected frame
- Sublocale
- P-sublocale
- Functor
- Reflective subcategory