We investigate the complexity of the lattice of local clones over a countably infinite base set. In particular, we prove that this lattice contains all algebraic lattices with at most countably many compact elements as complete sublattices, but that the class of lattices embeddable into the local clone lattice is strictly larger than that.
The clone lattice Cl(X) over an infinite set X is a complete algebraic lattice with 2^X compact elements. We show that every algebraic lattice with at most 2^X compact elements is a complete sublattice of Cl(X).
We investigate the complexity of the lattice of local clones over a countably infinite base set. In particular, we prove that this lattice contains all algebraic lattices with at most countably many compact elements as complete sublattices, but that the class of lattices embeddable into the local clone lattice is strictly larger than that: For example, the lattice $M_{2^ω}$ is a sublattice of the local clone lattice.
We investigate the lattice of clones that are generated by a set of functions that are induced on a finite field $\mathbb{F}$ by monomials. We study the atoms and coatoms of this lattice and investigate whether this lattice contains infinite ascending chains, or infinite descending chains, or infinite antichains. We give a connection between the lattice of these clones and semi-affine algebras. Furthermore, we show that the sublattice of idempotent clones of this lattice is finite and every idempotent monomial clone is principal.
A clone on a set X is a set of finitary operations on X which contains all projections and which is moreover closed under functional composition. Ordering all clones on X by inclusion, one obtains a complete algebraic lattice, called the clone lattice. We summarize what we know about the clone lattice on an infinite base set X and formulate what we consider the most important open problems.
We determine the atoms of the interval of the clone lattice consisting of those clones which contain all permutations, on an infinite base set. This is equivalent to the description of the atoms of the lattice of transformation monoids above the permutations.
A clone on a set X is a set of finitary operations on X which contains all the projections and is closed under composition. The set of all clones forms a complete lattice Cl(X) with greatest element O, the set of all finitary operations. For finite sets X the lattice is "dually atomic": every clone other than O is below a coatom of Cl(X). It was open whether Cl(X) is also dually atomic for infinite X. Assuming the continuum hypothesis, we show that there is a clone C on a countable set such that the interval of clones above C is linearly ordered, uncountable, and has no coatoms.
On an infinite base set X, every ideal of subsets of X can be associated with the clone of those operations on X which map small sets to small sets. We continue earlier investigations on the position of such clones in the clone lattice.
We give three examples of large intervals in the lattice of (local) clones on an infinite set X, by exhibiting clones C_1, C_2, C_3 such that: (1) the interval [C_1, O] in the lattice of local clones is (as a lattice) isomorphic to {0,1,2, ...} under the divisibility relation, (2) the interval [C_2, O] in the lattice of local clones is isomorphic to the congruence lattice of an arbitrary semilattice, (3) the interval [C_3, O] in the lattice of all clones is isomorphic to the lattice of all filters on X. These examples explain the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory analysis of the clone lat…
Let X be an infinite set of regular cardinality. We determine all clones on X which contain all almost unary functions. It turns out that independently of the size of X, these clones form a countably infinite descending chain. Moreover, all such clones are finitely generated over the unary functions. In particular, we obtain an explicit description of the only maximal clone in this part of the clone lattice. This is especially interesting if X is countably infinite, in which case it is known that such a description cannot be obtained for the second maximal clone over the unary functions.
We show that for an infinite set X, if L is a completely distributive algebraic lattice with not more completely join irreducible elements than the size of the power set of X, then there is a monoidal interval in the clone lattice on X which is isomorphic to 1+L, which is L plus a new smallest element added. Concerning cardinalities of monoidal intervals this result implies that there exist monoidal intervals of all cardinalities of at most the size of the power set of X, as well as monoidal intervals of cardinality 2^k, for all cardinals k which are not greater than the power set of X.
We investigate the lattice I(n) of clones on the ring Z_n between the clone of polynomial functions and the clone of congruence preserving functions. The crucial case is when n is a prime power. For a prime p, the lattice I(p) is trivial and I(p^2) is known to be a 2-element lattice. We provide a description of I(p^3). To achieve this result, we prove a reduction theorem, which says that I(p^k) is isomorphic to a certain interval in the lattice of clones on Z_p^(k-1).
The main aim of this paper is to study aggregation functions on lattices via clone theory approach. Observing that the aggregation functions on lattices just correspond to $0,1$-monotone clones, as the main result we show that for any finite $n$-element lattice $L$ there is a set of at most $2n+2$ aggregation functions on $L$ from which the respective clone is generated. Namely, the set of generating aggregation functions consists only of at most $n$ unary functions, at most $n$ binary functions, and lattice operations $\wedge,\vee$, and all aggregation functions of $L$ are composed of them by…
Given an infinite set X and an ideal I of subsets of X, the set of all finitary operations on X which map all (powers of) I-small sets to I-small sets is a clone. In a 2001 article, G. Czedli and L. Heindorf asked whether or not for two particular ideals I and J on a countably infinite set X, the corresponding ideal clones were a covering in the lattice of clones. We give an affirmative answer to this question.
The structure of the lattice of clones on a finite set has been proven to be very complex. To better understand the top of this lattice, it is important to provide a characterization of submaximal clones in the lattice of clones. It is known that the clones $Pol(θ)$ and $Pol(ρ)$ (where $θ$ is a nontrivial equivalence relation on $E_k = \{0,\dots, k-1\}$, and $ρ$ is among the six types of relations which characterize maximal clones) are maximal clones. In this paper, we provide a classification of relations (of Rosenberg's List) on $E_k$ such that the clone $Pol(θ) \cap Pol(ρ)$ is maximal in $P…
We calculate the number of unary clones (submonoids of the full transformation monoid) containing the permutations, on an infinite base set. It turns out that this number is quite large, on some cardinals as large as the whole clone lattice. Moreover we find that, with one exception, even the cardinalities of the intervals between the monoid of all permutations and the maximal submonoids of the full transformation monoid are as large. Whether or not the only exception is of the same cardinality as the other intervals depends on additional axioms of set theory.
We investigate finitary functions from $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$ to $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$ for two distinct prime numbers $p$ and $q$. We show that the lattice of all clones on the set $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$ which contain the addition of $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$ is finite. We provide an upper bound for the cardinality of this lattice through an injective function to the direct product of the lattice of all $(\mathbb{Z}_p,\mathbb{Z}_q)$-linearly closed clonoids to the $p+1$ power and the lattice of all $(\mathbb{Z}_q,\mathbb{Z}_p)$-linearly closed clonoids to the $q+1$ power. These lattices are studied in arXiv:1910.11…
We study centralizer clones of finite lattices and semilattices. For semilattices, we give two characterizations of the centralizer and also derive formulas for the number of operations of a given essential arity in the centralizer. We also characterize operations in the centralizer clone of a distributive lattice, and we prove that the essential arity of operations in the centralizer is bounded for every finite (possibly nondistributive) lattice. Using these results, we present a simple derivation for the centralizers of clones of Boolean functions.
For a modular lattice $L$ of finite length, we prove that the distributivity of $L$ is a sufficient condition while its 2-distributivity is a necessary condition that those sublattices of $L$ that are closed under taking relative complements form a ranked lattice of finite length.
A recent result of G. Czédli relates the ordered set of principal congruences of a bounded lattice $L$ with the ordered set of principal congruences of a~bounded sublattice $K$ of $L$. In this note, I sketch a new proof.
A clone on a set X is a set of finitary functions on X which contains the projections and which is closed under composition. The set of all clones on X forms a complete algebraic lattice Cl(X). We obtain several results on the structure of Cl(X) for infinite X. In the first chapter we prove the combinatorial result that if X is linearly ordered, then the median functions of different arity defined by that order all generate the same clone. The second chapter deals with clones containing the almost unary functions, that is, all functions whose value is determined by one of its variables up to a…
This article is part of my upcoming masters thesis which investigates the following open problem from the book, Free Lattices, by R.Freese, J.Jezek, and J.B. Nation published in 1995: "Which lattices (and in particular which countable lattices) are sublattices of a free lattice?" Despite partial progress over the decades, the problem is still unsolved. There is emphasis on the countable case because the current body of knowledge on sublattices of free lattices is most concentrated on when these sublattices are countably infinite. Galvin and Jonsson's paper characterized those sublattices of fr…
The problem of determining which infinite lattices are (isomorphic to) sublattices of free lattices is in general unsolved and extremely difficult. In this note, we reduce the problem by proving that all locally finite sublattices of free lattices are countable by using a result from Baldwin, Berman, Glass and Hodges on free algebras.
In this article, we first characterize pseudocomplemented inductive modular lattices by using their two 0-sublattices. Then we use two 0-sublattices of a subgroup lattice to describe all locally cyclic abelian groups. In particular, we show that a locally cyclic abelian group can be characterized by its three subgroups.
Let $L$ be a finite lattice and let $I$ be an ideal of $L$. Then the restriction map is a bounded lattice homomorphism of the congruence lattice of~$L$ into the congruence lattice of $I$. In a 2009 paper, the authors proved the converse. In a 2012 paper, G. Czédli proved an analogous result for rectangular lattices. In this paper, we prove a stronger form of Czédli's result and provide a short, elementary, and direct proof.
Conjecture on Maximal Sublattices of Finite Semidistributive Lattices and Beyond
Department of Mathematics, Hofstra University(霍夫斯特拉大学数学系);Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology(华沙理工大学数学与信息科学学院)
Let $L$ be a finite $n$-element lattice. We prove that if $L$ has at least $83\cdot 2^{n-8}$ sublattices, then $L$ is planar. For $n>8$, this result is sharp since there is a non-planar lattice with exactly $83\cdot 2^{n-8}-1$ sublattices.
In 1959, F.Galvin and B.Jonsson characterized distributive sublattices of free lattices in their paper. In this paper, I will create new proofs to a portion of Galvin and Jónsson's results. Based on these new proofs, I will explore possible generalizations of F.Galvin and B.Jónsson's work by defining \emph{spanning pairs} and proving partial results which may help with analysing finite width sublattices of free lattices; and by making some new observations on finitely generated lattices over semidistributive varieties. The work done in this paper may assist in attacking the following long-stan…
For every natural number $n\geq 5$, we prove that the number of subuniverses of an $n$-element lattice is $2^n$, $13\cdot 2^{n-4}$, $23\cdot 2^{n-5}$, or less than $23\cdot 2^{n-5}$. By a subuniverse, we mean a sublattice or the emptyset. Also, we describe the $n$-element lattices with exactly $2^n$, $13\cdot 2^{n-4}$, or $23\cdot 2^{n-5}$ subuniverses.
In a recent paper we proposed the study of aggregation functions on lattices via clone theory approach. Observing that aggregation functions on lattices just correspond to $0,1$-monotone clones, we have shown that all aggregation functions on a finite lattice $L$ can be obtained as usual composition of lattice operations $\wedge,\vee$, and certain unary and binary aggregation functions. The aim of this paper is to present a generating set for the class of intermediate (or, equivalently, idempotent) aggregation functions. This set consists of lattice operations and certain ternary idempotent ag…
This article is part of my upcoming masters thesis which investigates the following open problem from the book, Free Lattices, by R.Freese, J.Jezek, and J.B. Nation published in 1995: "Which lattices (and in particular which countable lattices) are sublattices of a free lattice?" Despite partial progress over the decades, the problem is still unsolved. There is emphasis on the countable case because the current body of knowledge on sublattices of free lattices is most concentrated on when these sublattices are countably infinite. It is known that sublattices of free lattices which are finite c…
An assosiahedron $\mathcal{K}^n$, known also as Stasheff polytope, is a multifaceted combinatorial object, which, in particular, can be realized as a convex hull of certain points in $\mathbf{R}^{n}$, forming $(n-1)$-dimensional polytope. A permutahedron $\mathcal{P}^n$ is a polytope of dimension $(n-1)$ in $\mathbf{R}^{n}$ with vertices forming various permutations of $n$-element set. There exist well-known orderings of vertices of $\mathcal{P}^n$ and $\mathcal{K}^n$ that make these objects into lattices: the first known as permutation lattices, and the latter as Tamari lattices. We establish…
We prove that the lattice Eq(X) of all equivalence relations on an infinite set X contains, as a 0,1-sublattice, the 0-coproduct of two copies of itself, thus answering a question by G.M. Bergman. Hence, by using methods initiated by de Bruijn and further developed by Bergman, we obtain that Eq(X) also contains, as a sublattice, the coproduct of 2^{card(X)} copies of itself.
This article is part of my upcoming masters thesis which investigates the following open problem from the book, Free Lattices, by R.Freese, J.Jezek, and J.B. Nation published in 1995: "Which lattices (and in particular which countable lattices) are sublattices of a free lattice?" Despite partial progress over the decades, the problem is still unsolved. There is emphasis on the countable case because the current body of knowledge on sublattices of free lattices is most concentrated on when these sublattices are countably infinite. In this article, a simple sufficient condition for a \emph{finit…
We construct a countable bounded sublattice of the lattice of all subspaces of a vector space with two non-isomorphic maximal Boolean sublattice. We represent one of them as the range of a Banschewski function and we prove that this is not the case of the other. Hereby we solve a problem of F. Wehrung.
Solution sets of systems of homogeneous linear equations over fields are characterized as being subspaces, i.e., sets that are closed under linear combinations. Our goal is to characterize solution sets of systems of equations over arbitrary finite algebras by a similar closure condition. We show that solution sets are always closed under the centralizer of the clone of term operations of the given algebra; moreover, the centralizer is the only clone that could characterize solution sets. If every centralizer-closed set is the set of all solutions of a system of equations over a finite algebra…
The problem of determining (up to lattice isomorphism) which lattices are sublattices of free lattices is in general an extremely difficult and an unsolved problem. A notable result towards solving this problem was established by Galvin and Jónsson when they classified (up to lattice isomorphism) all of the distributive sublattices of free lattices in 1959. In this paper, we weaken the requirement that of a free lattice be distributive to requiring that such a lattice belongs in the variety of lattices generated by the pentagon N5. Specifically, we use McKenzie's list of join-irreducible cover…