Notes on countable frames

Abstract

Matthew de Brecht raised the question of whether countable frames are continuous lattices. We prove that the continuity of a countable frame implies the quasicontinuity of its corresponding spectrum in the dual specialization order. We further show that this question admits a positive answer if the frame's spectrum is a $T_1$ space or a Scott space. In general, we confirm the existence of non-continuous countable frames. This work also partially addresses an open problem proposed by Jimmie Lawson and Michael Mislove in 1990, which concerns the characterization of when the spectrums of spatial frames are Scott spaces.