Line-closed combinatorial geometries (Q1088668)

We present some results on combinatorial geometries (geometric lattices) in which closure is line-closure. We prove that every interval of a line- closed geometry is line-closed. Furthermore, if every rank 3 interval of a geometry is line-closed, then the geometry is line-closed. This implies that every supersolvable geometry is line-closed. Though not true in general, supersolvability does characterize the line-closed graphic geometries.