Course: Theory of Lattices

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Course title Theory of Lattices
Course code KAG/PGSTZ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Halaš Radomír, prof. Mgr. Dr.
Course content
1. Lattices as posets and as algebraic structures. 2. Complete lattices: Closure operators, closed set systems, algebraic closure oparators, compact elements. 3. The Dedekind McNeill hull of a poset, completions of posets. 4. Congruence properties of lattices: Ideals and filters in lattices, the Hashimoto theorems. 5. Modular lattices, their representation, covering conditions, the Jordan-Hölder condition, fundamentals of geometric lattices, the Kurosh-Ore theorem. 6. Distributive lattices: Representation theorems, lattices with pseudocomplements, distributive, standard and neutral elements. 7. Boolean algebras: Representation, the Stone spaces. 8. Free lattices and their properties.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
Deepen knowledges from lattice theory.
Getting deep knowledges from posets and lattices.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Written exam

Credit: active participation in seminars.
Recommended literature
  • GRÄTZER G. A. (1998). General Lattice Theory. Birkhauser Verlag Basel-Boston-Berlin.


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