Structures of lattices which can be represented as the collection of all up-sets

Peng He, Xue-ping Wang

Published 2017-01-14Version 1

This paper first gives a necessary and sufficient condition that a lattice $L$ can be represented as the collection of all up-sets of a poset. Applying the condition, it obtains a necessary and sufficient condition that a lattice can be embedded into the lattice $L$ such that all infima, suprema, the top and bottom elements are preserved under the embedding by defining a monotonic operator on a poset. This paper finally shows that the quotient of the set of the monotonic operators under an equivalence relation can be naturally ordered and it is a lattice if $L$ is a finite distributive lattice.