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A Finiteness Criterion for Orthomodular Lattices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Günter Bruns
Günter Bruns*
Affiliation:
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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The main result of this paper is the following:

THEOREM. Every finitely generated orthomodular lattice L with finitely manymaximal Boolean subalgebras (blocks) is finite.

If L has one block only, our theorem reduces to the well-known fact that every finitely generated Boolean algebra is finite. On the other hand, it is known that a finitely generated orthomodular lattice without any further restrictions can be infinite. In fact, in [2] we constructed an orthomodular lattice which is generated by a three-element set with two comparable elements, has infinitely many blocks and contains an infinite chain.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1978 , pp. 315 - 320
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1978

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