A short proof of a theorem of Birkhoff

DOI10.1007/S000120050017MaRDI QIDQ1272106zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Grätzer, E. T. Schmidt, D. Wang

Publication date 23 November 1998

Published in Algebra Universalis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s000120050017

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupsBirkhoff theoremdistributive lattices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure and representation theory of distributive lattices (06D05) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Infinite automorphism groups (20B27) Representations of groups as automorphism groups of algebraic systems (20F29)

Review text

The authors present a very short proof of the Birkhoff Theorem: Every group \(G\) can be represented as the automorphism group of a distributive lattice \(D\); if \(G\) is finite then \(D\) can be chosen to be finite.

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