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The Spectrum of a Finite Lattice: Breadth and Length Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Richard Nowakowski
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaT2N IN4
Ivan Rival
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaT2N IN4
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Efforts to determine the orders of the sublattices of an arbitrary finite lattice date back at least to the early 1930's, and notably, in the work of Fritz Klein-Barmen [3], [4]. Nevertheless, very little that is new has appeared in the literature since that time.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1977

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