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Elementary properties of free lattices

  • J. B. Nation und Gianluca Paolini EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 15. Mai 2024

Abstract

We start a systematic analysis of the first-order model theory of free lattices. Firstly, we prove that the free lattices of finite rank are not positively indistinguishable, as there is a positive -sentence true in 𝐅 3 and false in 𝐅 4 . Secondly, we show that every model of Th ( 𝐅 n ) admits a canonical homomorphism into the profinite-bounded completion 𝐇 n of 𝐅 n . Thirdly, we show that 𝐇 n is isomorphic to the Dedekind–MacNeille completion of 𝐅 n , and that 𝐇 n is not positively elementarily equivalent to 𝐅 n , as there is a positive -sentence true in 𝐇 n and false in 𝐅 n . Finally, we show that DM ( 𝐅 n ) is a retract of Id ( 𝐅 n ) and that for any lattice 𝐊 which satisfies Whitman’s condition ( W ) and which is generated by join prime elements, the three lattices 𝐊 , DM ( 𝐊 ) , and Id ( 𝐊 ) all share the same positive universal first-order theory.

MSC 2020: 03C05; 03C64; 06B05

Communicated by Manfred Droste


Funding statement: The second author was supported by project PRIN 2022 “Models, sets and classifications”, prot. 2022TECZJA. The second author also wishes to thank the group GNSAGA of the “Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica “Francesco Severi”” (INDAM) to which he belongs.

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Received: 2023-10-10
Revised: 2024-03-20
Published Online: 2024-05-15
Published in Print: 2025-02-01

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