Esakia order-compactifications and locally Esakia spaces

Abstract

We introduce Esakia order-compactifications and study how they fit in the general theory of Priestley order-compactifications. We provide an analog of Dwinger's theorem by characterizing Esakia order-compactifications by means of special rings of upsets. These considerations naturally lead to the notion of a locally Esakia space, for which we prove that taking the largest Esakia order-compacification is functorial, thus obtaining an analog of Banaschewski's theorem.