Simplicial complexes with lattice structures

DOI10.2140/AGT.2017.17.439MaRDI QIDQ507058zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George M. Bergman

Publication date 3 February 2017

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00034

zbMATH Keywords

breadth of a latticedistributive latticemodular latticeorder complex of a poset or latticetopological lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Combinatorics of partially ordered sets (06A07) Topological lattices (06B30) General topology of complexes (57Q05)

Abstract: If $L$ is a finite lattice, we show that there is a natural topological lattice structure on the geometric realization of its order complex $Delta(L)$ (definition recalled). Lattice-theoretically, the resulting object is a subdirect product of copies of $L$. We note properties of this construction and of some variants thereof, and pose several questions. For $M_3$ the $5$-element nondistributive modular lattice, $Delta(M_3)$ is modular, but its underlying topological space does not admit a structure of distributive lattice, answering a question of Walter Taylor. We also describe a construction of "stitching together" a family of lattices along a common chain, and note how $Delta(M_3)$ can be obtained as a case of this construction.

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