The Duality Between Algebraic Posets and Bialgebraic Frames: A Lattice Theoretic Perspective

Abstract

This paper sets two goals. The first is to present algebraists with a purely order-theoretic derivation of the adjunction between the category DCPO of DCPOs (directed complete posets) and the category Frm of frames. This adjunction restricts to several Stone-type dualities which are well-known and of considerable interest to computer scientists. The second goal is to describe the object classes of these subdualities in terms familiar to algebraists, thereby making a large body of literature about them more accessible.