On the MacNeille completion of weakly dicomplemented lattices

Abstract

The MacNeille completion of a poset (P, ≤) is the smallest (up to isomorphism) complete poset containing (P, ≤) that preserves existing joins and existing meets. It is wellknown that the MacNeille completion of a Boolean algebra is a Boolean algebra. It is also wellknown that the MacNeille completion of a distributive lattice is not always a distributive lattice (see [Fu44]). The MacNeille completion even seems to destroy many properties of the initial lattice (see [Ha93]). Weakly dicomplemented lattices are bounded lattices equipped with two unary operations satisfying the equations (1) to (3') of Theorem 3. They generalise Boolean algebras (see [Kw04]). The main result of this contribution states that under chain conditions the MacNeille completion of a weakly dicomplemented lattice is a weakly dicomplemented lattice. The needed definitions are given in subsections 1.2 and 1.3.