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Lattice Theory - NMAG435
Title: Teorie svazů
Guaranteed by: Department of Algebra (32-KA)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2020
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English, Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Pavel Růžička, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. Mgr. Pavel Růžička, Ph.D.
Class: M Mgr. MSTR
M Mgr. MSTR > Povinně volitelné
Classification: Mathematics > Algebra
Incompatibility : NALG109
Interchangeability : NALG109
Is interchangeable with: NALG109
Annotation -
Introduction to the lattice theory: structure and basic properties of distributive and modular lattices, structure of congruences of lattices, free lattices, lattice varieties.
Last update: T_KA (09.05.2013)
Course completion requirements -

Students have to pass oral exam.

Last update: Žemlička Jan, doc. Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (28.10.2019)
Literature -

1. Gratzer, G. General Lattice Theory (2nd ed.), Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, 1998.

2. Nation, J. B., Notes on Lattice Theory. Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics, 1998. Online: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a16b/e5f1b0f120d0eacc1615ef5492fc2d9a32c3.pdf

Last update: Růžička Pavel, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (10.10.2017)
Requirements to the exam -

Students have to pass final oral exam. The requirements for the exam correspond to what has been done during lectures.

Last update: Žemlička Jan, doc. Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (28.10.2019)
Syllabus -

Basic properties of lattices:

lattices as ordered sets, algebraic concept, homomorphisms, congruences and ideals, join-irreducible elements

Distributive lattices:

characterization, free distributive lattices, congruences of distributive lattices, topological representation

Congruences and ideals:

weak projectivity and perspectivity, distributive, standard and neutral elements and ideals, congruences of a cartesian product, modular and weakly modular lattices, distributivity of the congruence lattice of a lattice

Modular and semimodular lattices:

characterization, Kurosh-Ore theorem, congruences in modular lattices, von Neumann theorem, Birghoff theorem, semimodular lattices, Jordan-Hölder theorem, geometric lattices, partition lattices, complemented modular lattices and projective geometries

Last update: T_KA (09.05.2013)
Entry requirements -

Basics of general algebra.

Last update: Žemlička Jan, doc. Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (17.05.2019)
 
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