Localization of modular lattices, krull dimension, and the hopkins-levitzki theorem (II) (Q4338212)

This is a continuation of the authors' Part I [Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 120, No. 1, 87-101 (1996; Zbl 0854.06008)], where they established a version of the Hopkins-Levitzki Theorem for a modular lattice \(L\) with respect to a Serre class \({\mathcal X}\) of modular lattices by showing that if \(L\) is \({\mathcal X}\)-artinian, then under certain circumstances \(L\) is \({\mathcal X}\)-noetherian as well. In the article under review, this theorem is applied to the case when \({\mathcal X}\) is the Serre class of all modular lattices with 0 and 1 having Krull dimension at most \(\alpha\) for some ordinal \(\alpha \geq -1\). Specifically, it is proved that if \(L\) and \(G\) are upper continuous modular lattices with Krull dimension \(k(-)\), if \(L\) is completely generated by \(G\), and if \(k(G) = \alpha + 1\), then \(k(L) \leq\alpha + 1\) and there exists a positive integer \(n\) such that \(k\leq n\) for any ascending chain \(x_{1} <\ldots x_{i} < x_{i+1} < \ldots x_{k}\) of elements of \(L\) with \(k(x_{i+1}/x_{i}) = \alpha + 1\).