arXiv · 1307.0900
CD-independent subsets in meet-distributive lattices
Abstract
A subset $X$ of a finite lattice $L$ is CD-independent if the meet of any two incomparable elements of $X$ equals 0. In 2009, Czédli, Hartmann and Schmidt proved that any two maximal CD-independent subsets of a finite distributive lattice have the same number of elements. In this paper, we prove that if $L$ is a finite meet-distributive lattice, then the size of every CD-independent subset of $L$ is at most the number of atoms of $L$ plus the length of $L$. If, in addition, there is no three-element antichain of meet-irreducible elements, then we give a recursive description of maximal CD-independent subsets. Finally, to give an application of CD-independent subsets, we give a new approach to count islands on a rectangular board.
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Gabor Czedli. 2013-07-09. CD-independent subsets in meet-distributive lattices. https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0900
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