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Classical.Properties.Lattice

The meet-join / order-theoretic view of a lattice

This is the Classical.Properties.Lattice module of the Agda Universal Algebra Library.

The algebraic and order-theoretic presentations of a lattice are equivalent. This module proves the object-level half of that equivalence: given a Lattice α ρ — that is, the algebraic data of meet, join, and the eight equations — we construct the partial order x ≤ y := x ∧ y ≈ x and show that _∧_ and _∨_ are the binary meet and join with respect to it.

The dual order characterization x ≤ y ⇔ x ∨ y ≈ y is proved as the connecting lemma. The partial-order properties and the GLB properties use only associativity, commutativity, and idempotency; the join upper-bound clauses use absorption directly, and the join leastness proof routes through the connecting lemma.

This is the first module in Classical/Properties/. The directory is a by-concern parallel of Classical/Structures/, Classical/Bundles/, etc., for derived results about classical structures — results that are theorems about a fixed inhabitant of one of those structures, not part of its definition. Future inhabitants include, for example, uniqueness of inverses in Group and 0 · x ≈ 0 in Ring.

{-# OPTIONS --cubical-compatible --exact-split --safe #-}

module Classical.Properties.Lattice where

open import Agda.Primitive                           using () renaming ( Set to Type )

-- Imports from the Agda Standard Library -----------------------------------------
open import Data.Fin.Base                            using ( Fin )
open import Data.Fin.Properties                      using ( _≟_ ; all? )
open import Data.Nat.Base                            using (  )
open import Data.Product                             using ( proj₁ ; _×_ )
open import Data.Sum.Base                            using ( _⊎_ )
open import Level                                    using ( Level )
open import Relation.Binary                          using ( Setoid )
open import Relation.Binary.PropositionalEquality    using ( _≡_ ; _≢_ )
open import Relation.Nullary.Decidable.Core          using ( Dec ; ¬? ; _×-dec_ ; _→-dec_ ; _⊎-dec_ )

import Relation.Binary.Reasoning.Setoid as SetoidReasoning

-- Imports from the Agda Universal Algebra Library --------------------------------
open import Classical.Signatures.Lattice             using ( Sig-Lattice )
open import Classical.Structures.Lattice             using ( Lattice ; module Lattice-Op )
open import Setoid.Algebras.Basic {𝑆 = Sig-Lattice}  using ( 𝔻[_] ; 𝕌[_] )

private variable α ρ : Level

The Lattice-Order module

module Lattice-Order {α ρ : Level} (𝑳 : Lattice α ρ) where
  private 𝑨 = proj₁ 𝑳
  open Setoid 𝔻[ 𝑨 ]
  open Lattice-Op 𝑳
  open SetoidReasoning 𝔻[ 𝑨 ]

The induced order. x ≤ y is x ∧ y ≈ x (the meet-form characterization). The join-form x ∨ y ≈ y is proved iff-equivalent below.

  infix 4 _≤_
  _≤_ : 𝕌[ 𝑨 ]  𝕌[ 𝑨 ]  Type ρ
  x  y = x  y  x

Connecting lemma: meet-form and join-form agree. Forward direction uses the second absorption law (in its absorbʳ-law shape: (y ∧ x) ∨ y ≈ y); backward direction uses the first. The partial-order and GLB results below need only associativity, commutativity, and idempotency; the join upper-bound clauses use absorption directly.

  ≤-via-∨ :  {x y}  x  y  x  y  y
  ≤-via-∨ {x} {y} x≤y = begin
    x  y         ≈⟨ ∨-cong (sym x≤y) refl 
    (x  y)  y   ≈⟨ ∨-cong (∧-comm-law x y) refl 
    (y  x)  y   ≈⟨ absorbʳ-law y x 
    y             

  ≤-from-∨ :  {x y}  x  y  y  x  y
  ≤-from-∨ {x} {y} x∨y≈y = begin
    x  y         ≈⟨ ∧-cong refl (sym x∨y≈y) 
    x  (x  y)   ≈⟨ absorbˡ-law x y 
    x             

Partial order modulo . Reflexivity is idempotency, transitivity uses associativity, antisymmetry uses commutativity, and the -respect lemmas use binary congruence.

  ≤-refl :  {x}  x  x
  ≤-refl {x} = ∧-idem-law x

  ≤-trans :  {x y z}  x  y  y  z  x  z
  ≤-trans {x} {y} {z} x≤y y≤z = begin
    x  z         ≈⟨ ∧-cong (sym x≤y) refl 
    (x  y)  z   ≈⟨ ∧-assoc-law x y z 
    x  (y  z)   ≈⟨ ∧-cong refl y≤z 
    x  y         ≈⟨ x≤y 
    x             

  ≤-antisym :  {x y}  x  y  y  x  x  y
  ≤-antisym {x} {y} x≤y y≤x = begin
    x       ≈⟨ sym x≤y 
    x  y   ≈⟨ ∧-comm-law x y 
    y  x   ≈⟨ y≤x 
    y       

  ≤-respˡ-≈ :  {x x' y}  x  x'  x  y  x'  y
  ≤-respˡ-≈ {x} {x'} {y} x≈x' x≤y = begin
    x'  y   ≈⟨ ∧-cong (sym x≈x') refl 
    x  y    ≈⟨ x≤y 
    x        ≈⟨ x≈x' 
    x'       

  ≤-respʳ-≈ :  {x y y'}  y  y'  x  y  x  y'
  ≤-respʳ-≈ {x} {y} {y'} y≈y' x≤y = begin
    x  y'   ≈⟨ ∧-cong refl (sym y≈y') 
    x  y    ≈⟨ x≤y 
    x        

_∧_ is the binary meet. The two lower-bound clauses and the universal property — together with the partial-order facts above — say that x ∧ y is the greatest lower bound of x and y with respect to _≤_.

  ∧-lowerˡ :  x y  (x  y)  x
  ∧-lowerˡ x y = begin
    (x  y)  x   ≈⟨ ∧-comm-law (x  y) x 
    x  (x  y)   ≈⟨ sym (∧-assoc-law x x y) 
    (x  x)  y   ≈⟨ ∧-cong (∧-idem-law x) refl 
    x  y         

  ∧-lowerʳ :  x y  (x  y)  y
  ∧-lowerʳ x y = begin
    (x  y)  y   ≈⟨ ∧-assoc-law x y y 
    x  (y  y)   ≈⟨ ∧-cong refl (∧-idem-law y) 
    x  y         

  ∧-greatest :  {x y z}  z  x  z  y  z  (x  y)
  ∧-greatest {x} {y} {z} z≤x z≤y = begin
    z  (x  y)   ≈⟨ sym (∧-assoc-law z x y) 
    (z  x)  y   ≈⟨ ∧-cong z≤x refl 
    z  y         ≈⟨ z≤y 
    z             

_∨_ is the binary join. Dually: x ∨ y is the least upper bound of x and y. The two upper-bound clauses use absorption directly; the universal property is proved through the join-form characterization to avoid going through absorption twice.

  ∨-upperˡ :  x y  x  (x  y)
  ∨-upperˡ x y = absorbˡ-law x y

  ∨-upperʳ :  x y  y  (x  y)
  ∨-upperʳ x y = begin
    y  (x  y)   ≈⟨ ∧-cong refl (∨-comm-law x y) 
    y  (y  x)   ≈⟨ absorbˡ-law y x 
    y             

  ∨-least :  {x y z}  x  z  y  z  (x  y)  z
  ∨-least {x} {y} {z} x≤z y≤z = ≤-from-∨ (begin
    (x  y)  z   ≈⟨ ∨-assoc-law x y z 
    x  (y  z)   ≈⟨ ∨-cong refl (≤-via-∨ y≤z) 
    x  z         ≈⟨ ≤-via-∨ x≤z 
    z             )

The decidable meet order and its atoms

FiniteOrder _∧_ packages the meet order a ≤ b := a ∧ b ≡ a over a finite carrier together with its decision procedure. Fixing a bottom and top (submodule Bounded) it provides the atom/coatom predicates and their deciders. This is the finite, decidable counterpart of the setoid-level Lattice-Order._≤_ above, and is what the finite lattice examples reuse.

module FiniteOrder {n : } (_∧_ : Fin n  Fin n  Fin n) where
  infix 4 _≤_ _≤?_

  _≤_ : Fin n  Fin n  Type
  a  b = a  b  a

  _≤?_ : (a b : Fin n)  Dec (a  b)
  a ≤? b = (a  b)  a

  module Bounded (  : Fin n) where

    -- a is an atom: a ≠ ⊥, with nothing strictly between ⊥ and a.
    atom : Fin n  Type
    atom a = (a  ) × (∀ b  b  a  (b  )  (b  a))

    -- a is a coatom: a ≠ ⊤, with nothing strictly between a and ⊤.
    coatom : Fin n  Type
    coatom a = (a  ) × (∀ b  a  b  (b  a)  (b  ))

    atom? : (a : Fin n)  Dec (atom a)
    atom? a = ¬? (a  ) ×-dec all?  b  (b ≤? a) →-dec ((b  ) ⊎-dec (b  a)))

    coatom? : (a : Fin n)  Dec (coatom a)
    coatom? a = ¬? (a  ) ×-dec all?  b  (a ≤? b) →-dec ((b  a) ⊎-dec (b  )))