TY - BOOK AU - Hofmann,Karl Heinrich AU - Keimel,Klaus TI - A general character theory for partially ordered sets and lattices T2 - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, SN - 9780821899205 (online) AV - QA3QA169 .A57 no. 122 U1 - 510/.8 s511/.33 PY - 1972///] CY - [Providence, R.I. PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Categories (Mathematics) KW - Topological spaces KW - Lattice theory KW - Ordered sets KW - Partially ordered sets N1 - Bibliography: p. 112-114; 0. Introduction and functorial background; 1. Adjoint functors between the categories of partially ordered sets and topological spaces; 2. The general adjunction theorem; 3. Partially ordered semigroups topological spaces; 4. Continuous characters and the duality of lattices and topological spaces; 5. Quasicompactness and quasi-Boolean duality; 6. Regular characters, minimal characters and compactifications; 7. Pseudocomplemented lattices, pseudocomplemented characters, maximal characters, projective covers; Access is restricted to licensed institutions; Electronic reproduction; Providence, Rhode Island; American Mathematical Society; 2012 UR - http://www.ams.org/memo/0122 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/memo/0122 ER -