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Orthomodular posets from sesquilinear forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Robert Piziak
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsUniversity of Florida205 Walker Hall, Gainesville Florida 32601, U. S. A.
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In this paper, we show how to generate orthomodular posets from sesquilinear forms on a vector space.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1973

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