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Although it originated as a method to study general dynamical systems, symbolic dynamics is useful in coding for data storage and transmission as well as in linear algebra. Requiring only a undergraduate knowledge of linear algebra, this first general textbook includes over 500 exercises.

An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding

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A Course in Universal Algebra

The Theory of Matrices. By F R. Gantmacher. Two volumes, pp. 374 and 276. 1959. (Translated from the Russian by K. A. Hirsch; Chelsea Publishing Company, New York)

This paper gives general conditions under which a collection of optimization problems, with the objective function and the constraint set depending on a parameter, has optimal solutions that are an isotone function of the parameter. Relating to this, we present a theory that explores and elaborates on the problem of minimizing a submodular function on a lattice.

Minimizing a Submodular Function on a Lattice

Preface.- Introduction.- Glossary of Notation.- I First Concepts.- 1 Two Definitions of Lattices.- 2 How to Describe Lattices.- 3 Some Basic Concepts.- 4 Terms, Identities, and Inequalities.- 5 Free Lattices.- 6 Special Elements.- II Distributive Lattices.- 1 Characterization and Representation Theorems.- 2 Terms and Freeness.- 3 Congruence Relations.- 4 Boolean Algebras.- 5 Topological Representation.- 6 Pseudocomplementation.- III Congruences.- 1 Congruence Spreading.- 2 Distributive, Standard, and Neutral Elements.- 3 Distributive, Standard, and Neutral Ideals.- 4 Structure Theorems.- IV Lattice Constructions.- 1 Adding an Element.- 2 Gluing.- 3 Chopped Lattices.- 4 Constructing Lattices with Given Congruence Lattices.- 5 Boolean Triples.- V Modular and Semimodular Lattices.- 1 Modular Lattices.- 2 Semimodular Lattices.- 3 Geometric Lattices.- 4 Partition Lattices.- 5 Complemented Modular Lattices.- VI Varieties of Lattices.- 1 Characterizations of Varieties 397.- 2 The Lattice of Varieties of Lattices.- 3 Finding Equational Bases.- 4 The Amalgamation Property.- VII Free Products.- 1 Free Products of Lattices.- 2 The Structure of Free Lattices.- 3 Reduced Free Products.- 4 Hopfian Lattices.- Afterword.- Bibliography.

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Lattice Theory: Foundation

Polynomial interpolation and the Chinese Remainder Theorem for algebraic systems

Partial orders of dimension 2

Finite equational bases for finite algebras in a congruence-distributive equational class*

This note presents a useful explicit characterization of the free vector lattice FVL(ℵ) on ℵ generators as a vector lattice of piecewise linear, continuous functions on Rℵ, where ℵ is any cardinal and R is the set of real numbers. A transfinite construction of FVL(ℵ) has been given by Weinberg (14) and simplified by Holland (13, § 5). Weinberg's construction yields the fact that FVL(ℵ) is semi-simple; the present characterization is obtained by combining this fact with a theorem from universal algebra due to Garrett Birkhoff.

Kirby A. Baker

Papers

Polynomial interpolation and the Chinese Remainder Theorem for algebraic systems

Partial orders of dimension 2

Finite equational bases for finite algebras in a congruence-distributive equational class*

Free Vector Lattices

Growth problems for avoidable words