Terminal spaces of monoids

Abstract

The purpose of this note is a wide generalization of the topological results of various classes of ideals of rings, semirings, and modules, endowed with Zariski topologies, to strongly irreducible ideals (endowed with Zariski topologies) of monoids, called terminal spaces. We show that terminal spaces are $T_0$, quasi-compact, and every nonempty irreducible closed subset has a unique generic point. We characterize arithmetic monoids in terms of terminal spaces. Finally, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the subspaces of maximal and prime ideals to be dense in the corresponding terminal spaces.