Spectral resolution in a Rickart comgroup

A comgroup is a compressible group with the general comparability property. A comgroupwith the Rickart projection property is called a Rickart comgroup. We show that each element of a Rickart comgroup has a rational spectral resolution and a nonempty closed and bounded (real) spectrum. The rational spectral resolution and the spectrum are shown to have many of the properties of the spectral resolution and spectrum of a self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space. Examples of Rickart comgroups include the additive group of self-adjoint elements in a von Neumann algebra and the Mundici group of a Heyting MV algebra.