TY - JOUR AU - Chen, Yuxu AU - Kou, Hui PY - 2023 TI - Core compactness of ordered topological spaces JO - AIMS Mathematics SP - 4862 EP - 4874 VL - 8 IS - 2 AB - In this paper, we investigate the property of core compactness of ordered topological spaces. Particularly, we give a series of characterizations of the core compactness for directed spaces. Several results obtained in this paper are closely related to a long-standing open problem in Open problems in Topology (J. van Mill, G. M. Reed Eds., North-Holland, 1990): Which distributive continuous lattice's spectrum is exactly a sober locally compact Scott space? UR - https://doi.org/10.3934/math.2023242 DO - 10.3934/math.2023242