On realization of Björner’s “continuous partition lattice” by measurable partitions
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Abstract:
Björner [1] showed how a construction by von Neumann of examples of continuous geometries can be adapted to construct a continuous analogue of finite partition lattices. Björner’s construction realizes the continuous partition lattice abstractly, as a completion of a direct limit of finite lattices. Here we give an alternative construction realizing a continuous partition lattice concretely as a lattice of measurable partitions. This new lattice contains the Björner lattice and shares its key properties. Furthermore its automorphism group is the full automorphism group $\pmod 0$ of the unit interval with Lebesgue measure, whereas, as we show, the Björner lattice possesses only a proper subgroup of these automorphisms.References
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- © Copyright 1994 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 343 (1994), 695-711
- MSC: Primary 06C10; Secondary 28D99
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1994-1211408-0
- MathSciNet review: 1211408