1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, E0A 3C0, Canada 2. Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 3I5, Canada
Abstract:
We extend the concept of constructive complete distributivity so as to make it applicable to ordered sets admitting merely bounded suprema. The KZ-doctrine for bounded suprema is of some independent interest and a few results about it are given. The 2-category of ordered sets admitting bounded suprema over which inhabited (classically non-empty) infima distribute is shown to be bi-equivalent to a 2-category defined in terms of idempotent relations. As a corollary we obtain a simple construction of the non-negative reals.