Distributivity of a segmentation lattice (Q6064863)

In this interesting paper, finite closure spaces with closed singletons are studied on the level of segmentations, meaning, partitions of the space into closed subsets. These spaces are direct generalizations of topological T1-spaces. The segmentations themselves form a lattice. The authors study such spaces for which this lattice is distributive. One of the motivations for studying these spaces is that the segmentations are used often in understanding digital images in computer vision. The paper provides several equivalent conditions for segmentational distributivity in terms of triples of closed sets, connected systems of closed sets, properties of induced closure operators on down-sets of connectively irreducible sets, and finally by the restriction of existence of certain sublattices. The paper is well written with a good set of references.