Spectral Spaces

Offers a comprehensive presentation of spectral spaces focussing on their topology and close connections with algebra, ordered structures, and logic.

Outline of the history of spectral spaces; 1. Spectral spaces and spectral maps; 2. Basic constructions; 3. Stone duality; 4. Subsets of spectral spaces; 5. Properties of spectral maps; 6. Quotient constructions; 7. Scott topology and coarse lower topology; 8. Special classes of spectral spaces; 9. Localic spaces; 10. Colimits in Spec; 11. Relations of Spec with other categories; 12. The Zariski spectrum; 13. The real spectrum; 14. Spectral spaces via model theory; Appendix. The poset zoo; References; Index of categories and functors; Index of examples; Symbol index; Subject index.