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Semigroups Co-Ordinatizing Orthomodular Geometries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

D. J. Foulis
D. J. Foulis*
Affiliation:
Wayne State University and the University of Florida
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In (2, 3, 4, and 5), the author has established a connection between orthomodular lattices and Baer *-semigroups. In brief, the connection is as follows. The lattice of closed projections of any Baer *-semigroup forms an orthomodular lattice. Conversely, if L is any orthomodular lattice, there exists a Baer *-semigroup S which co-ordinatizes L in the sense that L is isomorphic to the lattice of closed projections in S. In this note we shall assume that the reader is familiar with the results and the notation of the quoted papers.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 17 , 1965 , pp. 40 - 51
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965

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