When spectra of lattices of -ideals are Stone-Čech compactifications
Let be a completely regular Hausdorff space and, as usual, let denote the ring of real-valued continuous functions on . The lattice of -ideals of has been shown by Martínez and Zenk (2005) to be a frame. We show that the spectrum of this lattice is (homeomorphic to) precisely when is a -space. This we actually show to be true not only in spaces, but in locales as well. Recall that an ideal of a commutative ring is called a -ideal if whenever two elements have the same annihilator and...