| Abstract: | A locally compact commutative band with open principal ideals is a zero-dimensional scattered space. Cardinal invariants of locally compact and compact commutative bands with open principal ideals is investigated. A base of the topology of a compact commutative band with open principal ideals is determined and the structure of such compact semilattices in which every principal lower set is a chain is described. Every first countable compact inverse semigroup with open right (left, two-sided) principal ideals is metrizable |
