ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Distributivity of bounded lattices with sectionally antitone involutions
Authors 1
Affiliations
- 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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