On a new convergence class in k-bounded sober spaces

Abstract

Recently, J. D. Lawson encouraged the domain theory community to consider the scientific program of developing domain theory in the wider context of T0 spaces instead of restricting to posets. In this paper, we respond to this calling by proving a topological parallel of a 2005 result due to B. Zhao and D. Zhao, i.e., an order-theoretic characterisation of those posets for which the lim-inf convergence is topological. We do this by adopting a recent approach due to D. Zhao and W. K. Ho by replacing directed subsets with irreducible sets. As a result, we formulate a new convergence class on T0 spaces called Irr-convergence and established that this convergence class I on a k-bounded sober space X is topological if and only if X is Irr-continuous.