English

Extension of sectional pseudocomplementation in posets

Combinatorics 2022-11-02 v2

Abstract

Sectional pseudocomplementation (sp-complementation) on a poset is a partial operation * which associates with every pair (x,y)(x,y) of elements, where xyx \ge y, the pseudocomplement xyx*y of xx in the upper section [y)[y). Any total extension \to of * is said to be an extended sp-complementation and is considered as an implication-like operation. Extended sp-complementations have already be studied on semilattices and lattices. We describe several naturally arising classes of general posets with extended sp-complementation, present respective elementary properties of this operation, demonstrate that two other known attempts to isolate particular such classes are in fact not quite correct, and suggest suitable improvements.

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@article{arxiv.2207.02642,
  title  = {Extension of sectional pseudocomplementation in posets},
  author = {Jānis Cīrulis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02642},
  year   = {2022}
}

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pdfLaTeX, 28 pages, contains LaTeX figures and tables. V2: Proposition 3.6 corrected, the final part of Section 3.3 reorganized, Remark 3 edited, Theorem 7.6 and Corollary 7.7 strengthened, proof of Theorem 7.10 edited

R2 v1 2026-06-24T12:15:51.070Z