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Title: Cyclic congruences of slim semimodular lattices and non-finite axiomatizability of some finite structures (English)
Author: Czédli, Gábor
Language: English
Journal: Archivum Mathematicum
ISSN: 0044-8753 (print)
ISSN: 1212-5059 (online)
Volume: 58
Issue: 1
Year: 2022
Pages: 15-33
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: We give a new proof of the fact that finite bipartite graphs cannot be axiomatized by finitely many first-order sentences among finite graphs. (This fact is a consequence of a general theorem proved by L. Ham and M. Jackson, and the counterpart of this fact for all bipartite graphs in the class of all graphs is a well-known consequence of the compactness theorem.) Also, to exemplify that our method is applicable in various fields of mathematics, we prove that neither finite simple groups, nor the ordered sets of join-irreducible congruences of slim semimodular lattices can be described by finitely many axioms in the class of finite structures. Since a 2007 result of G. Grätzer and E. Knapp, slim semimodular lattices have constituted the most intensively studied part of lattice theory and they have already led to results even in group theory and geometry. In addition to the non-axiomatizability results mentioned above, we present a new property, called Decomposable Cyclic Elements Property, of the congruence lattices of slim semimodular lattices. (English)
Keyword: finite model theory
Keyword: non-finite axiomatizability
Keyword: finite axiomatizability
Keyword: finite bipartite graphs
Keyword: finite simple group
Keyword: join-irreducible congruence
Keyword: congruence lattice
Keyword: slim semimodular lattice
Keyword: finite propositional logic
Keyword: first-order inexpressibility
Keyword: first-order language
MSC: 03C13
MSC: 06C10
idZBL: Zbl 07511505
idMR: MR4412964
DOI: 10.5817/AM2022-1-15
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Date available: 2022-02-23T12:09:11Z
Last updated: 2022-06-23
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/149444
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