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Congruence Class Sizes in Finite Sectionally Complemented Lattices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

G. Grätzer
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, email: [email protected], http://www.math.umanitoba.ca/homepages/gratzer/
E. T. Schmidt
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics Műegyetem rkp. 3 H-1521 Budapest Hungary email:[email protected]://www.math.bme.hu/∼schmidt/
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Abstract

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The congruences of a finite sectionally complemented lattice $L$ are not necessarily uniform (any two congruence classes of a congruence are of the same size). To measure how far a congruence $\Theta $ of $L$ is from being uniform, we introduce Spec $\Theta $, the spectrum of $\Theta $, the family of cardinalities of the congruence classes of $\Theta $. A typical result of this paper characterizes the spectrum $S=({{m}_{j}}|j<n)$ of a nontrivial congruence $\Theta $ with the following two properties:

$$({{S}_{1}})\,\,\,\,2\le n\,\,\text{and }n\ne 3.\,\,\,\,$$
$$({{S}_{2}})\,\,\,2\le {{m}_{j}}\,\,\text{and}\,\,{{m}_{j}}\ne 3,\,\,\,\text{for}\,\text{all}\,j<n.$$

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2004

References

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