Lattice varieties with non-elementary amalgamation classes

DOI10.1007/S000120050117MaRDI QIDQ5932485zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Ouwehand, Henry Rose

Publication date 10 June 2001

Published in Algebra Universalis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s000120050117

zbMATH Keywords

amalgamation classelementary classlattice variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties of lattices (06B20) Products, amalgamated products, and other kinds of limits and colimits (08B25) Axiomatic model classes (08C10)

Review text

For a class \(\mathcal K\), denote by \(\text{Amal} (\mathcal K\)) the subclass of all amalgamation bases of \(\mathcal K\). It is a question under what conditions \(\text{Amal} (\mathcal K\)) is an elementary class. For lattice varieties it was shown by C. Bergman in 1989 that no finitely generated non-distributive modular variety has an elementary amalgamation class. The authors prove a more general result. For a lattice \(K\) denote by \(K_{(2)}\) the lattice obtained by glueing 2 copies of \(K\) together, top element to bottom element. For a variety \(\mathcal V\) let \(\mathcal V_{MI}\) denote the class of maximal SI-members of \(\mathcal V\). Main result: Theorem 3.7. Suppose that \(\mathcal V\) is a finitely generated variety of lattices and suppose that \(K\in \text{Amal} (\mathcal V\)) is a simple lattice such that \(K_{(2)}\) is not a sublattice of any member of \({\mathcal V}_{(MI)}\). Then neither \(\text{Amal} (\mathcal V\)) nor its complement are elementary classes.

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