Zariski-like topologies for lattices with applications to modules over associative rings

Abstract

We study Zariski-like topologies on a proper class [Formula: see text] of a complete lattice [Formula: see text]. We consider [Formula: see text] with the so-called classical Zariski topology [Formula: see text] and study its topological properties (e.g. the separation axioms, the connectedness, the compactness) and provide sufficient conditions for it to be spectral. We say that [Formula: see text] is [Formula: see text]-top if [Formula: see text] is a topology. We study the interplay between the algebraic properties of an [Formula: see text]-top complete lattice [Formula: see text] and the topological properties of [Formula: see text] Our results are applied to several spectra which are proper classes of [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is a nonzero left module over an arbitrary associative ring [Formula: see text] (e.g. the spectra of prime, coprime, fully prime submodules) of [Formula: see text] as well as to several spectra of the dual complete lattice [Formula: see text] (e.g. the spectra of first, second and fully coprime submodules of [Formula: see text]).