Distributive congruence lattices of congruence-permutable algebras

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Abstract: We prove that every distributive algebraic lattice with at most aleph1 compact elements is isomorphic to the normal subgroup lattice of some group and to the submodule lattice of some right module. The aleph1 bound is optimal, as we find a distributive algebraic lattice D with aleph2 compact elements that is not isomorphic to the congruence lattice of any algebra with almost permutable congruences (hence neither of any group nor of any module), thus solving negatively a problem of E. T. Schmidt from 1969. Furthermore, D may be taken as the congruence lattice of the free bounded lattice on aleph2 generators in any non-distributive lattice variety. Some of our results are obtained via a functorial approach of the semilattice-valued "distances" used by B. Jonsson in his proof of Whitman's embedding Theorem. In particular, the semilattice of compact elements of D is not the range of any distance satisfying the V-condition of type 3/2. On the other hand, every distributive join-semilattice with zero is the range of a distance satisfying the V-condition of type 2. This can be done via a functorial construction.



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