Tensor Products and Transferability of Semilattices

DOI10.4153/CJM-1999-034-6MaRDI QIDQ4266458zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Grätzer, Friedrich Wehrung

Publication date 30 September 1999

Published in Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501419

zbMATH Keywords

capped tensor productjoin-semilatticelatticetransferability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semilattices (06A12) Structure theory of lattices (06B05) Representation theory of lattices (06B15)

Abstract: In general, the tensor product, $AotimesB$, of the lattices A and B with zero is not a lattice (it is only a join-semilattice with zero). If $AotimesB$ is a capped tensor product, then $AotimesB$ is a lattice (the converse is not known). In this paper, we investigate lattices A with zero enjoying the property that $AotimesB$ is a capped tensor product, for every lattice B with zero; we shall call such lattices amenable. The first author introduced in 1966 the concept of a sharply transferable lattice. In 1972, H. Gaskill [5] defined, similarly, sharply transferable semilattices, and characterized them by a very effective condition (T). We prove that a finite lattice A is amenable iff it is sharply transferable as a join-semilattice. For a general lattice A with zero, we obtain the result: A is amenable iff A is locally finite and every finite sublattice of A is transferable as a join-semilattice. This yields, for example, that a finite lattice A is amenable iff $AotimesF(3)$ is a lattice iff A satisfies (T), with respect to $jj$. In particular, $M3otimesF(3)$ is not a lattice. This solves a problem raised by R. W. Quackenbush in 1985 whether the tensor product of lattices with zero is always a lattice.

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