On the widths of finite distributive lattices (Q1821126)

The authors improve a theorem of Faigle and Sands: For a finite distributive lattice L of width w(L) holds \[ w(L)/| L| =O((\log \log | L|)^{-(-\epsilon)}), \] \(\epsilon\) \(>0\). In particular, for every \(R>0\) there exists a number n(R) such that if w(L)\(\geq n(R)\) then \(| L| \geq R\cdot w(L)\). It is conjectured that \(w(L)/| L| =O((\log | L|)^{-})\) and that \(\lim_{| L| \to \infty}w(L)/| L| \to 0\) for meet distributive lattices L.