ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Distributivity of bounded lattices with sectionally antitone involutions

Authors 1

Affiliations

  1. Department of Algebra and Geometry, Palacký University of Olomouc, Tomkova 40, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic

Abstract

We present a simple condition under which a bounded lattice L with sectionally antitone involutions becomes an MV-algebra. In thiscase, L is distributive. However, we get a criterion characterizingdistributivity of L in terms of antitone involutions only.

Keywords

sectionally antitone involution, bounded lattice, distributive lattice, MV-algebra

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Pages:
155-163
Main language of publication
English
Received
2004-10-06
Published
2005
Exact and natural sciences