Complemented Modular Lattices

Abstract

1.1 This paper gives a lattice theoretic investigation of “finiteness“ and “continuity of the lattice operations” in a complemented modular lattice. Although we usually assume that the lattice is-complete for some infinite,3we do not require completeness and continuity, as von Neumann does in his classical memoir on continuous geometry (3); nor do we assume orthocomplementation as Kaplansky does in his remarkable paper (1).1.2. Our exposition is elementary in the sense that it can be read without reference to the literature. Our brief preliminary § 2 should enable the reader to read this paper independently.1.3. Von Neumann's theory of independence (3, Part I, Chapter II) leans heavily on the assumption that the lattice is continuous, or at least upper continuous.