International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 18 (1995), Issue 4, Pages 665-676
doi:10.1155/S0161171295000858

On the Nachbin compactification of products of totally ordered spaces

D. C. Kent,1 Dongmei Liu,1 and T. A. Richmond2

1Department of Mathematics, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-3113, Washington, USA
2Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green 42101, Kentucky, USA

Received 18 October 1993

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Abstract

Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for β0(X×Y)=β0X×β0Y, where X and Y are totally ordered spaces and β0X denotes the Nachbin (or Stone-Čech ordered) compactification of X.