Generalizing Galvin and Jónsson's classification to N₅

DOI10.1007/S00012-020-00674-6zbMATH Open1484.06019arXiv1910.03395OpenAlexW3043036911MaRDI QIDQ783290FDOQ783290

Authors: Brian T. Chan 

Publication date: 12 August 2020

Published in: Algebra Universalis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The problem of determining (up to lattice isomorphism) which lattices are sublattices of free lattices is in general an extremely difficult and an unsolved problem. A notable result towards solving this problem was established by Galvin and J'onsson when they classified (up to lattice isomorphism) all of the distributive sublattices of free lattices in 1959. In this paper, we weaken the requirement that of a free lattice be distributive to requiring that such a lattice belongs in the variety of lattices generated by the pentagon N5. Specifically, we use McKenzie's list of join-irreducible covers of the variety generated by N5 to extend Galvin and J'onsson's results by proving that all sublattices of a free lattice that belong to the variety generated by N5 satisfy three structural properties. Afterwards, we explain how the results in this paper can be partially extended to lattices from seven known infinite sequences of semidistributive lattice varieties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03395

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zbMATH Keywords

modular latticesdistributive sublattices of free latticesnon-modular lattice varietiessublattices of free latticesvariety generated by the pentagon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure theory of lattices (06B05) Varieties of lattices (06B20) Free lattices, projective lattices, word problems (06B25)

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