Counting and Computing Join-Endomorphisms in Lattices

Santiago Quintero, Sergio Ramirez, Camilo Rueda, Frank Valencia

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Abstract

Structures involving a lattice and join-endomorphisms on it are ubiquitous in computer science. We study the cardinality of the set of all join-endomorphisms of a given finite lattice. In particular, we show that when is, the discrete order of n elements extended with top and bottom, where is the Laguerre polynomial of degree n. We also study the following problem: Given a lattice L of size n and a set of size m, find the greatest lower bound. The join-endomorphism has meaningful interpretations in epistemic logic, distributed systems, and Aumann structures. We show that this problem can be solved with worst-case time complexity in for powerset lattices, for lattices of sets, and for arbitrary lattices. The complexity is expressed in terms of the basic binary lattice operations performed by the algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRelational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science - 18th International Conference, RAMiCS 2020, Proceedings
EditorsUli Fahrenberg, Peter Jipsen, Michael Winter
PublisherSpringer
Pages253-269
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783030435196
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event18th International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science, RAMiCS 2020 - Palaiseau, France
Duration: 08 Apr 202011 Apr 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12062 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science, RAMiCS 2020
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityPalaiseau
Period08/04/2011/04/20

Keywords

  • Join-endomorphisms
  • Lattice algorithms
  • Lattice cardinality

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