Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
31 votes
5 answers
5k views

Gossip about Grothendieck and distributive lattices

In Gian-Carlo Rota's Indiscrete Thoughts, there a list of mathematical gossip among which one reads: [...] What would have happened [...] if Grothendieck had known the theory of distributive ...
13 votes
2 answers
1k views

What's the deal with De Morgan algebras and Kleene algebras?

The notion of Boolean algebras, and the corresponding classical propositional logic, is very standard, and it is easy to find information about them (for example, among many other such works, there is ...
Gro-Tsen's user avatar
  • 32.5k
6 votes
1 answer
325 views

Distributive lattice of subspaces

Let $V$ be a finite dimensional vector space. Let $\Lambda$ be a collection of subspaces of $V$ such that, if $X$ and $Y$ are in $\Lambda$, then $X\cap Y$ and $X+Y$ are in $\Lambda$. This makes $\...
David E Speyer's user avatar
3 votes
0 answers
162 views

Open sets on a Stone space

If $B$ is a Boolean algebra (possibly assumed complete), is there a standard name for the Heyting algebra (or frame) $L := \Omega(S(B))$ of open sets on the Stone space $S(B)$ of $B$, — or for the ...
Gro-Tsen's user avatar
  • 32.5k
2 votes
1 answer
170 views

Reference for lattices as algebraic structures

I want to study lattices as a structure related to ring theory. I am familiar with lattices as a beginner but I want to go further and know their connections to ring theory. Do you know a book which ...
13571's user avatar
  • 33
0 votes
0 answers
206 views

Vector-valued valuations on lattices

There's a fair amount of work on valuations on (modular) lattices, by which I mean functions $v : \mathcal{L} \rightarrow R$ that satisfy the modular expression $$v(x) + v(y) = v(x \wedge y) + v(x \...
Suresh Venkat's user avatar