Scott products and sobriety of countable meet-continuous dcpos

Abstract: We study Scott-product compatibility and sobriety for countable meet-continuous directed-complete partial orders (dcpos). We construct a countable meet-continuous dcpo $\mathcal R$ whose Scott space is well-filtered but not sober, although the Scott topology on every finite power is the product of the factor Scott topologies. The ideals of $\mathcal R$ admit a unique finite-parameter description. We also construct a countable meet-continuous dcpo $\mathbb{H}$ with a greatest element whose Scott space is coherent and well-filtered, but whose Scott square has a topology strictly finer than the ordinary product topology. These constructions answer negatively two questions about countable meet-continuous dcpos. On the positive side, we prove that a meet-continuous $L$-dcpo, meaning a dcpo whose principal ideals are complete lattices, is Scott sober whenever its Scott square carries the ordinary product topology. This answers Jia's core-compactness question affirmatively for $L$-dcpos without any countability assumption. Finally, we characterize well-filteredness of $L$-dcpos by boundedness of closed Rudin sets and formulate related open questions.