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Let $L$ be an complete lattice. A lattice homomorphism $f: L\to L$ is said to be join-incomplete if there is an infinite set $S \subseteq L$ such that $f(\bigvee_L S) \neq \bigvee_L f(S).$

If $f:L\to L$ is join-incomplete, does there exist a lattice homomorphism $g:L\to L$ such that

  • there is $S\subseteq L$ with $g(S) \subseteq S$, and
  • $g(\bigvee_L S) > \bigvee_L g(S)$

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    $\begingroup$ You use $f$ both for the given homomorphism and for the one you are looking for. Please call one of them $g$. $\endgroup$
    – Goldstern
    Jul 22, 2015 at 10:51

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The answer is no.

I will refer to these lattices (the labels are not meaningful - I took the images from a paper). Figure 1 depicts a lattice $A$ with the following properties:

  1. $A$ is meet semidistributive.
  2. Every injective endomorphism of $A$ is join-complete.
  3. If $\theta$ is any nonzero congruence on $A$, then $A/\theta$ is finite. Moreover, the natural map $A\to A/\theta$ is either join-complete or else the image $A/\theta$ is not meet semidistributive.
  4. The lattice $B$ in Figure 2 is a homomorphic image of $A$ (map $\overline{\overline{a}}$ to $x$, map each $b_{2n}$ to $y$, each $c_{2n+1}$ to $z$).

So take $L$ to be the ordinal sum of $A$ and $B$ ($B$ on top of $A$). Call the least and largest elements $0$ and $1$. This lattice is complete.

Define $f\colon L\to L$ by taking the (bottom) copy of $A$ in $L$ to the (top) copy of $B$, according to the homomorphism described in 4 above, and taking the top copy of $B$ to $1$. $f$ is a join-incomplete, since $f$ does not preserve the join of the central $\omega$-chain. (In fact, $f$ does not preserve the join of any $\omega$-chain.)

Claim. $L$ has no contracting join-incomplete endomorphism.

Sketch. Assume that $g\colon L\to L$ is a join-incomplete endomorphism. $g$ must be join-incomplete restricted to $A$, since $A$ contains all nonprincipal ideals of $L$ and their joins. Hence, by 2 and 3 above, $g$ is noninjective on $A$, and $g(A)$ is not meet semidistributive. This clearly implies $g(A)\not\subseteq A$, since $A$ is meet semidistributive, but in fact you can convince yourself of the stronger fact that $g(A)\subseteq B$. This shows that $g$ is not contracting, since all nonprincipal ideals lie in $A$ while their $g$-images lie in $B$. \\

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