A defining equation and reflective subcategories of quasicontinuous complete semilattices

Abstract

In 1981, Gerhard Gierz and Jimmie Lawson gave a necessary condition for a complete lattice to be quasicontinuous using an equation. However, whether quasicontinuous lattices can be characterized by equations has remained unknown. In this paper, we give an equational characterization of quasicontinuous complete semilattices. Furthermore, we investigate congruences of quasicontinuous complete semilattices. We derive the first isomorphism theorem for quasicontinuous complete semilattices in the context of C-congruences. As a consequence, we show that the category of all continuous complete semilattices with maps preserving directed sups and nonempty infs is a reflective full subcategory of quasicontinuous complete semilattices.