An analogue of distributivity for ungraded lattices

DOI10.1007/S11083-006-9046-9zbMATH Open1134.06003arXivmath/0502278OpenAlexW2023233761MaRDI QIDQ862986FDOQ862986

Hugh Thomas

Publication date: 25 January 2007

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Abstract: In this paper, we define a property, trimness, for lattices. Trimness is a not-necessarily-graded generalization of distributivity; in particular, if a lattice is trim and graded, it is distributive. Trimness is preserved under taking intervals and suitable sublattices. Trim lattices satisfy a weakened form of modularity. The order complex of a trim lattice is contractible or homotopic to a sphere; the latter holds exactly if the maximum element of the lattice is a join of atoms. Other than distributive lattices, the main examples of trim lattices are the Tamari lattices and various generalizations of them. We show that the Cambrian lattices in types A and B defined by Reading are trim, and we conjecture that all Cambrian lattices are trim.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502278

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zbMATH Keywords

Cambrian latticeTamari latticeextremal latticesupersolvable latticeleft modular lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure theory of lattices (06B05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Modular lattices, Desarguesian lattices (06C05)

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