Archimedean classes in an ordered semigroup. II
This paper extends the notion of an archimedean frame to frames which are not necessarily algebraic. The new notion is called joinfitness and is Choice-free. Assuming the Axiom of Choice and for compact normal algebraic frames, the new and the old coincide. There is a subfunctor from the category of compact normal frames with skeletal maps with joinfit values, which is almost a coreflection. Conditions making it so are briefly discussed. The concept of an infinitesimal element arises naturally,...
This work discusses the problem of Arens regularity of a lattice-ordered ring. In this prospect, a counterexample is furnished to show that without extra conditions, a lattice-ordered ring need not be Arens regular. However, as shown in this paper, it turns out that any -ring in the sense of Birkhoff and Pierce is Arens regular. This result is then used and extended to the more general setting of almost -rings introduced again by Birkhoff.