Lattice-based sums

  • Authors:
  • Moataz El-Zekey;JesúS Medina;Radko Mesiar

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Benha University, Egypt;Department of Mathematics, University of Cádiz, Spain;Department of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia and Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modelli ...

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this contribution, the well-known ordinal sum technique of posets is generalized by allowing for a lattice ordered index set instead of a linearly ordered index set, and we argue for the merits of this generalization. We will call such a proposed sum-type construction a lattice-based sum. Our new approach of lattice-based sum extends also the horizontal sum. We show that the lattice-based sum of posets is again a poset. Subsequently, we apply the results for constructing new lattices by investigating lattice-based sums when the summand posets are lattices. We show that under certain assumptions, the lattice-based sum of lattices will be a lattice.