Absolute retracts for finite distributive lattices and slim semimodular lattices

DOI10.1007/S11083-021-09592-1arXiv2105.10604OpenAlexW3171598761MaRDI QIDQ6105035FDOQ6105035

A. Molkhasi, Gábor Czédli

Publication date: 26 June 2023

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Abstract: We describe the absolute retracts for the following classes of finite lattices: (1) slim semimodular lattices, (2) finite distributive lattices, and for each positive integer $n$, (3) at most $n$-dimensional finite distributive lattices. Although the singleton lattice is the only absolute retract for the first class, this result has paved the way to some other classes. For the second class, we prove that the absolute retracts are exactly the finite boolean lattices; this generalizes a 1979 result of J. Schmid. For the third class, the absolute retracts are the finite boolean lattices of dimension at most $n$ and the direct products of $n$ nontrivial finite chains. Also, we point out that in each of these classes, the algebraically closed lattices and the strongly algebraically closed lattices are the same as the absolute retracts. Slim (and necessarily planar) semimodular lattices were introduced by G. Gr"atzer and E. Knapp in 2007, and they have been intensively studied since then. Algebraically closed and strongly algebraically closed lattices have been investigated by J. Schmid and, in several papers, by A. Molkhasi.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10604

zbMATH Keywords

absolute retractdistributive latticeslim semimodular latticestrongly algebraically closed latticealgebraically closed lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semimodular lattices, geometric lattices (06C10)

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