Revisiting Faigle geometries from a perspective of semimodular lattices

DOI10.7151/DMGAA.1416arXiv2107.10202MaRDI QIDQ6182103FDOQ6182103

Publication date: 20 December 2023

Published in: Discussiones Mathematicae - General Algebra and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1980, U. Faigle introduced a sort of finite geometries on posets that are in bijective correspondence with finite semimodular lattices. His result has almost been forgotten in lattice theory. Here we simplify the axiomatization of these geometries, which we call Faigle geometries. To exemplify their usefulness, we give a short proof of a theorem of Gr"atzer and E. Knapp (2009) asserting that each slim semimodular lattice

L

has a congruence-preserving extension to a slim rectangular lattice of the same length as

L

. As another application of Faigle geometries, we give a short proof of G. Gr"atzer and E. W. Kiss' result from 1986 (also proved by M. Wild in 1993 and the present author and E. T. Schmidt in 2010) that each finite semimodular lattice

L

has an extension to a geometric lattice of the same length as

L

.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10202

zbMATH Keywords

semimodular lattice slim semimodular lattice rectangular lattice geometric lattice Faigle geometry congruence-preserving extension planar semimodular lattice cover-preserving extension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices of subspaces and geometric closure systems (51D25) Semimodular lattices, geometric lattices (06C10) Finite geometry and special incidence structures (51E99)

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