On the spectralification of a hemispectral space

An open subset U of a topological space X is called intersection compact open, or ICO, if for every compact open set Q of X, U ∩ Q is compact. A continuous map f of topological spaces will be called spectral if f ^-1 carries ICO sets to ICO sets. Call a topological space X hemispectral, if the intersection of two ICO sets of X is an ICO. Let HSPEC be the category whose objects are hemispectral spaces and arrows spectral maps. Let SPEC be the full subcategory of HSPEC whose objects are spectral spaces. The main result of this paper proves that SPEC is a reflective subcategory of HSPEC. This gives a complete answer to Problem BST1 of "O. Echi, H. Marzougui and E. Salhi, Problems from the BizerteSfaxTunis seminar, in Open Problems in Topology II, ed. E. Pearl (Elsevier, 2007), pp. 669674."