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The closed nucleus $c(a)$ determines the complement of the open $a$. A sublocale with nucleus $j$ is dense precisely when $j(0)=0$, since its closure is the closed sublocale defined by $j(0)$.

A sublocale is dense when its closure is the whole locale. For a map $f$, its image is dense when $f^{\ast }(a)=0$ implies $a=0$. Classically, a dense point belongs to every nonzero open.

A sublocale is flat when its nucleus on a frame preserves finite joins, including $0$. Equivalently its fixed elements are closed under ambient finite joins. In particular every flat sublocale is a dense sublocale.

A nucleus is an inflationary, idempotent, finite-meet-preserving map on a frame. Its fixed elements form a frame, whose joins are obtained by applying $j$ to ambient joins. The induced locale is a sublocale. The nuclei on a frame themselves form a frame in pointwise order; their meets are pointwise, but their joins usually are not.

The Heyting implication defines a nucleus on a frame whose sublocale is the open determined by $a$. It is the least nucleus on a frame sending $a$ to $1$.

Put $A=\mathcal{O}(X)$ and $\neg a=a\to 0$. The closure of the open $a$ is the closed sublocale with closed nucleus $c(\neg a)$; its interior is the open $\neg \neg a$. The closed sublocale complementary to $\neg a$ is also open precisely when $\neg a$ is complemented, in which case its open representative is $\neg \neg a$. Thus the closure is clopen precisely when the regular open element $\neg \neg a$ is complemented. Every regular open element has this form, so (i) and (ii) are equivalent.

The Booleanization of a locale is the sublocale with double-negation nucleus. A flat sublocale has a nucleus preserving finite joins, equivalently its fixed-element set is closed under ambient finite joins. For completeness, if a nucleus preserves finite joins then its fixed points are closed under them. Conversely, if fixed points are closed under joins, $j(a)\vee j(b)$ is fixed and bounds $a\vee b$, giving $j(a\vee b)\le j(a)\vee j(b)$; monotonicity gives equality, and preservation of $0$ is precisely $j(0)=0$. Since $\neg \neg 0=0$, condition (iv) is exactly (iii). Together the preceding implications prove all four characterizations of an extremally disconnected locale.