nLab
reverse lattice of filters

It is convenient for the poset 𝔉(A) of filters on a given set A to have the reverse order to set-theoretic inclusion:

abab.a \sqsubseteq b \Leftrightarrow a \supseteq b .

We will call it the reverse poset of filters (or reverse lattice when it is a lattice).

We can denote the lattice operations on 𝔉(A) as , , , , . By 0 𝔉(A) and 1 𝔉(A) we denote the minimal and maximal elements of this poset. So set-theoretically, 𝒳𝒴 is the filter generated by the union XY, 𝒳𝒴 is the intersection XY, and similarly for i𝒳 i and i𝒳 i, while 0 𝔉(A) is the power set 𝒫(A) and 1 𝔉(A) is the empty set .

Revised on June 5, 2012 21:21:07 by Toby Bartels (64.89.53.214)