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Uniquely Complemented Lattice


A uniquely complemented lattice is a complemented lattice (L, ^ , v ,0,1,^') that satisfies

 ( forall x in L)( forall y in L)[(x ^ y=0) ^ (x v y=1)]=>y=x^'.

The class of uniquely complemented lattices is not a subvariety of the class of complemented lattices. On the other hand, there is a well-known class of uniquely complemented lattices that is a subvariety of the variety of complemented lattices, namely the class of Boolean algebras. They form a variety because they are the distributive complemented lattices, and one can prove that any distributive complemented lattice is uniquely complemented.


See also

Complemented Lattice

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Insall, Matt. "Uniquely Complemented Lattice." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource, created by Eric W. Weisstein. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/UniquelyComplementedLattice.html

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