English

Varieties and quasivarieties of lattices with complementation

Rings and Algebras 2026-05-19 v1

Abstract

We investigate (quasi)varieties of lattices with complementation, i.e., complemented lattices equipped with a fixed complementation as a unary operation. We focus on subclasses satisfying additional conditions, such as the quasi-identity (xy0  &  xy0)({x'\wedge y\approx 0} \;\&\; {x\wedge y'\approx 0}) xy\Rightarrow x\approx y, modularity, or De Morgan's laws. We present a construction resembling a semidirect product that yields infinitely many finite subdirectly irreducible modular lattices with complementation satisfying this quasi-identity. We axiomatize small varieties, each of which covers the variety of Boolean algebras, generated by certain small modular lattices with De Morgan complementation.

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@article{arxiv.2605.17274,
  title  = {Varieties and quasivarieties of lattices with complementation},
  author = {V. Cenker and I. Chajda and J. Kühr and H. Länger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.17274},
  year   = {2026}
}