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Sasaki projections on orthocomplemented posets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

P.D. Finch
Affiliation:
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria.
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Abstract

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It is proved that an orthocomplemented poset P is an orthomodular lattice if and only if it admits a suitable defined set of order preserving maps. These maps are called projections. They are, in fact, Just the projections of the Baer *-semigroup associated with the orthomodular lattice.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1969

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