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Atoms, Primes and Implicative Lattices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

C. S. Hoo
C. S. Hoo*
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Abstract

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Let L be an a-implicative semilattice. We obtain a characterization of those elements which cover a. This gives a characterization of atoms in pseudocomplemented semilattices, and leads to various results on primes and irreducibles in semilattices. As an application, we prove that in a complete, atomistic lattice L, the following are equivalent (i) L is implicative (ii) L is (2, ∞) meet distributive (iii) each element of L is a meet of primes.

Keywords

06D2003G0506D1503G10
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , 01 September 1984 , pp. 279 - 285
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1984

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