Continuity in Partially Ordered Sets

The notion of a continuous domain is generalized to include posets which are not dcpos and in which the set of elements way below an element is not necessarily directed. We show that several of the pleasing algebraic and topological properties of domains carry over to this setting.

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Main Author: Venu G. Menon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2008-01-01
Series:International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/321761
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Continuity in Partially Ordered Sets
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
title Continuity in Partially Ordered Sets
title_full Continuity in Partially Ordered Sets
title_fullStr Continuity in Partially Ordered Sets
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title_short Continuity in Partially Ordered Sets
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