Distributive lattices, associative geometries: the arithmetic case
英文摘要：
We prove an identity for five arguments, valid in the lattice of natural numbers with gcd and lcm as lattice operations. More generally, this identity characterizes arbitrary distributive lattices. Fixing three of the five arguments, we always get associative products, and thus every distributive lattice carries many semigroup structures. In the arithmetic case, we explicitly compute multiplication tables of such semigroups and describe some of their properties. Many of them are periodic, and can be seen as "non-commutative analogs" of the rings Z/nZ.
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