Affiliation:
1. Physical Sciences Laboratory New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
2. Department of Mathematical Sciences New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
Abstract
Abstract
In [HARDING, J.: Decompositions in quantum logic, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), 1839–1862] the author showed that the direct product decompositions of many different types of structures, such as sets, groups, vector spaces, topological spaces, and relational structures, naturally form orthomodular posets. When applied to the direct product decompositions of a Hilbert space, this construction yields the familiar orthomodular lattice of closed subspaces of the Hilbert space.
In this note we consider orthomodular posets Fact X of decompositions of a finite set X. We consider the structure of these orthomodular posets, such as their size, shape, connectedness, states, and begin a study of their automorphism groups in the context of the natural map Γ from the group of permutations of X to the automorphism group of FACT
X.
We show Γ is an embedding except when |X| is prime or 4, and completely describe the situation when |X| has two or fewer prime factors, when |X| = 23 and when |X| = 33. The bulk of our effort lies in a series of combinatorial arguments to show Γ is an isomorphism when |X| = 27. We conjecture that this is the case whenever |X| has sufficiently many prime factors of sufficient size, and hope that our arguments here might be adapted to the general case.
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