Mai GEHRKE and Hilary A. PRIESTLEY

A b s t r a c t. The purpose of this note is to expose a new way of viewing the canonical extension of posets and bounded lattices. Specifically, we seek to expose categorical features of this completion and to reveal its relationship to other completion processes.

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24/29 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LB, United Kingdom
hap@maths.ox.ac.uk