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Retracts of Posets: The Chaingap Property and the Selection Property are Independant

Dwight Duffus, Claude Laflamme, Maurice Pouzet

math.COarXiv:math/0612458

Abstract

Posets which are retract of products of chains are characterized by means of two properties: the chain-gap property and the selection property (Rival and Wille, 1981 R-W). Examples of posets with the selection property and not the chain-gap property are easy to find. To date, the Boolean lattice (ω1)/Fin was the sole example of lattice without the selection property R-W. We prove that it does not have the chain-gap property. We provide an example of a lattice which has the chain-gap property but not the selection property. This answer questions raised in R-W.

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