Notes on Pointfree Disconnectivity with a Ring-theoretic Slant

We give characterizations of extremally disconnected frames, basically disconnected frames and F-frames L in terms of ring-theoretic properties of the ring \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$\mathcal{R}L$\end{document} of continuous real-valued functions on L. Emanating from these are new (and purely ring-theoretic) proofs that a frame is extremally disconnected, basically disconnected or an F-frame iff the same holds for its Čech-Stone compactification.