We know that ideals of a lattice are dual of its filters. Moreover, Heyting Algebra is a special class of lattice. Can we define an ideal of a Heyting Algebra dually to its filter?
Yes, it seems to me that we can define an ideal of a Heyting algebra dually to its filter.
Recall that a Heyting algebra is a lattice equipped with an additional binary operation called implication, denoted by $\rightarrow$, which satisfies the following conditions for all elements $a$, $b$, and $c$ in the lattice:
Given a Heyting algebra $H$, we can define a dual notion of an ideal as follows:
An ideal of $H$ is a subset $I\subseteq H$ that satisfies the following conditions:
$1\in I$;
if $a\in I$ and $b\in H$ with $a\leq b$, then $b\in I$;
if $a\in I$ and $b\in I$, then $a\vee b\in I$;
if $a\in I$ and $a\rightarrow b\in I$, then $b\in I$.
We can check that this definition is indeed the dual of the definition of a filter of a Heyting algebra, which is defined as a subset $F\subseteq H$ that satisfies the following conditions:
$1\in F$;
if $a\in F$ and $b\in F$, then $a\wedge b\in F$;
if $a\in F$ and $a\leq b$, then $b\in F$;
if $a\in F$ and $b\in H$ with $a\wedge b=0$, then $b\notin F$.
In particular, we see that the dual of condition 2 for filters says that if $a\in F$ and $b\in H$ with $a\leq b$, then $b\in F$, while the dual of condition 4 for filters says that if $a\in F$ and $a\rightarrow b\in F$, then $b\in F$. These conditions are precisely the conditions 2 and 4 for ideals.
Thus, we can define ideals of a Heyting algebra dually to its filters...
In the context of Heyting algebras, an ideal is a subset of the algebra that is closed under taking lower bounds (infima) and is also closed under implication.
More formally, let H be a Heyting algebra. An ideal of H is a subset I ⊆ H that satisfies the following conditions:
1) For any a, b ∈ I, the infimum (greatest lower bound) a ∧ b is also in I.
2) For any a ∈ I and b ∈ H, if a → b ∈ I, then b ∈ I.
Intuitively, this means that an ideal is a subset of H that contains all the "smaller" elements (i.e., lower bounds) of any pair of elements in the ideal, and that is closed under implication, meaning that if a is "smaller" than b, and a belongs to the ideal, then b should also belong to the ideal.
Ideals are an important concept in Heyting algebras because they generalize the notion of a prime ideal in a Boolean algebra. In a Boolean algebra, a prime ideal is an ideal that is also closed under taking complements.
However, in a Heyting algebra, not all ideals are prime, and the concept of a prime ideal needs to be generalized to reflect the algebra's more general structure.