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Lattices whose ideal lattice is Stone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

R. Beazer
R. Beazer
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Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW
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An elementary fact about ideal lattices of bounded distributive lattices is that they belong to the equational class ℬω of all distributive p-algebras (distributive lattices with pseudocomplementation). The lattice of equational subclasses of ℬω is known to be a chain

of type (ω+l, where ℬ0 is the class of Boolean algebras and ℬ1 is the class of Stone algebras. G. Grätzer in his book [7] asks after a characterisation of those bounded distributive lattices whose ideal lattice belongs to ℬ (n≧1). The answer to the problem for the case n = 0 is well known: the ideal lattice of a bounded lattice L is Boolean if and only if L is a finite Boolean algebra. D. Thomas [10] recently solved the problem for the case n = 1 utilising the order-topological duality theory for bounded distributive lattices and in [5] W. Bowen obtained another proof of Thomas's result via a construction of the dual space of the ideal lattice of a bounded distributive lattice from its dual space. In this paper we give a short, purely algebraic proof of Thomas's result and deduce from it necessary and sufficient conditions for the ideal lattice of a bounded distributive lattice to be a relative Stone algebra.

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 107 - 112
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1983

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