Jordan-H\"older with uniqueness for semimodular semilattices

Abstract

We present a short proof of the Jordan-H\"older theorem with uniqueness for semimodular semilattice: Given two maximal chains in a semimodular semilattice of finite height, they both have the same length. Moreover there is a unique bijection that takes the prime intervals of the first chain to the prime intervals of the second chain such that the interval and its image are up-and-down projective. The theorem generalizes the classical result that all composition series of a finite group have the same length and isomorphic factors. Moreover, it shows that the isomorphism is in some sense unique.