Unitally nondistributive quantales

Abstract

Unitally nondistributive quantales are unital quantales such that the unit is approximable by the totally below relation and does not meet-distribute over arbitrary joins. It is shown that the underlying nondistributive complete lattice contains at least $7$ elements. Moreover, under mild conditions, every quantale has an extension to a unitally nondistributive quantale by the addition of an isolated unit. As a byproduct of this construction we prove that there exist $30$ non-isomorphic, unitally nondistributive quantales on the set of $7$ elements.