meet continuous


Let L be a meet semilattice. We say that L is meet continuous if

  1. 1.

    for any monotoneMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmath net D={xiiI} in L, its supremumMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmath D exists, and

  2. 2.

    for any aL and any monotone net {xiiI},

    a{xiiI}={axiiI}.

A monotone net {xiiI} is a net x:IL such that x is a non-decreasing function; that is, for any ij in I, xixj in L.

Note that we could have replaced the first condition by saying simply that DL is a directed setMathworldPlanetmath. (A monotone net is a directed set, and a directed set is a trivially a monotone net, by considering the identity function as the net). It’s not hard to see that if D is a directed subset of L, then aD:={axxD} is also directed, so that the right hand side of the second condition makes sense.

Dually, a join semilattice L is join continuous if its dual (as a meet semilattice) is meet continuous. In other words, for any antitone net D={xiiI}, its infimumMathworldPlanetmath D exists and that

a{xiiI}={axiiI}.

An antitone net is just a net x:IL such that for ij in I, xjxi in L.

Remarks.

  • A meet continuous latticeMathworldPlanetmath is a complete latticeMathworldPlanetmath, since a poset such that finite joins and directed joins exist is a complete lattice (see the link below for a proof of this).

  • Let a lattice L be both meet continuous and join continuous. Let {xiiI} be any net in L. We define the following:

    lim¯xi=jI{jixi}   and   lim¯xi=jI{ijxi}

    If there is an xL such that lim¯xi=x=lim¯xi, then we say that the net {xi} order converges to x, and we write xix, or x=limxi. Now, define a subset CL to be closed (in L) if for any net {xi} in C such that xix implies that xC, and open if its set complementPlanetmathPlanetmath is closed, then L becomes a topological lattice. With respect to this topologyMathworldPlanetmath, meet and join are easily seen to be continuousMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmath.

References

  • 1 G. Birkhoff, Lattice Theory, 3rd Edition, Volume 25, AMS, Providence (1967).
  • 2 G. Gierz, K. H. Hofmann, K. Keimel, J. D. Lawson, M. W. Mislove, D. S. Scott, Continuous Lattices and Domains, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2003).
  • 3 G. Grätzer, General Lattice Theory, 2nd Edition, Birkhäuser (1998).
Title meet continuous
Canonical name MeetContinuous
Date of creation 2013-03-22 16:36:41
Last modified on 2013-03-22 16:36:41
Owner CWoo (3771)
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Author CWoo (3771)
Entry type Definition
Classification msc 06A12
Classification msc 06B35
Synonym order convergence
Related topic CriteriaForAPosetToBeACompleteLattice
Related topic JoinInfiniteDistributive
Defines join continuous
Defines order converges