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On the Partially Ordered Set of Prime Ideals of a Distributive Lattice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Raymond Balbes
Raymond Balbes*
Affiliation:
University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri
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For a distributive lattice L, let denote the poset of all prime ideals of L together with ∅ and L. This paper is concerned with the following type of problem. Given a class of distributive lattices, characterize all posets P for which for some . Such a poset P will be called representable over. For example, if is the class of all relatively complemented distributive lattices, then P is representable over if and only if P is a totally unordered poset with 0, 1 adjoined. One of our main results is a complete characterization of those posets P which are representable over the class of distributive lattices which are generated by their meet irreducible elements. The problem of determining which posets P are representable over the class of all distributive lattices appears to be very difficult.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , October 1971 , pp. 866 - 874
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

Footnotes

This research was supported, in part, by NSF Grant GP11893.

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