Academic Publications, Ltd.
Author: Leslie Cohn
Title: ON THE UBIQUITY OF GORENSTEIN QUASI-ORDERS
ISBN: 978-954-2940-05-0
Publisher: Academic Publications, Ltd.
Date: July, 2011
Pages: 336
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Author

Professor Leslie Cohn, Ph.D.
The Citadel
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
171 Moultrie Street, Charleston, SC 29409, USA
url: http://155.225.10.78/lchp.htm, http://www.mathcs.citadel.edu
email: Cohnl@Citadel.edu

Abstract

This monograph induces a new class of quasi-orders, Gorenstein quasi-orders. Gorenstein quasi-orders are analogs of Gorenstein orders, which are a class of rings that generalize the rings of integers of algebraic number fields.

In the first chapter of this work, we give some very simple examples of Gorenstein quasi-orders. We then describe a functorial construction, the Gorenstein lift, which associates to a arbitrar quasi-order on a set X a Gorenstein quasi-order on the cartesian product Z of X with the set of integers Z. We call the simple examples together with Gorenstein lifts "special" Gorenstein quasi-orders. We then prove our main result on the structure/classification of Gorenstein quasi-orders, namely, that every Gorenstein quasi-order is a generalized sum over a total order of a family of special Gorenstein quasi-orders. Analysis of the isomorphisms of Gorenstein quasi-orders uncovers the existence of an important equivalence relation for quasi-orders, which we call Gorenstein equivalence, and whose properties we investigate in detail.

In the second chapter, we apply the machinery developed in Chapter 1 to obtain new generalized sum decompositions for arbitrary quasi-orders, where restrictions are placed on the summands.

The final chapter returns to the theory of Gorenstein quasi-orders. We describe another functorial construction of Gorenstein quasi-orders, which like the Gorenstein lift introduced in Chapter 1, associates to each quasi-order on a set X a Gorenstein quasi-order on Z. We call the new construction the "second Gorenstein lift." Chapter 3 makes explicit the decomposition of the second Gorenstein lift of a quasi-order as a generalized sum of special Gorenstein quasi-orders, whose existence follows from the structure theory of Gorenstein quasi-orders presented in Chapter 1.

AMS Classification: 06A06

Key words: coequalizer, coessential quasi-order, essential quasi-order, equalizer, generalized summation, Gorenstein quasi-order, Gorenstein lift, Gorenstein equivalence, induction of quasi-orders, invertible relation, second Gorenstein lift, strong coequalizer, strongly coessential quasi-order, weak equivalence

Contents

Introductionv
Chapter 1. The Classification of Gorenstein Quasi-Orders1
1.1. Introduction1
1.2. The Theory of Invertibility of Relations 3
1.3. Gorenstein Quasi-Orders 38
1.4. The Gorenstein Lift of a Quasi-Order 43
1.5. Generalized Summation of Quasi-Orders 47
1.6. Special Gorenstein Quasi-Orders 55
1.7. Cyclic Gorenstein Partial Orders 57
1.8. Cyclic Subsets of Gorenstein Partial Orders 62
1.9. The Fundamental Cone of a Set 71
1.10. Elementary Gorenstein Partial Orders 78
1.11. Structure of Gorenstein Partial Orders 81
1.12. Classification of Gorenstein Quasi-Orders 87
1.13. Isomorphisms of Gorenstein Quasi-Orders 104
1.14. The Automorphism Group of a Gorenstein Quasi-Order 111
1.15. Isomorphisms of Special Gorenstein Partial Orders 122
1.16. Gorenstein Equivalence of Quasi-Orders 127
1.17. The Gorenstein Equivalence Class of a Quasi-Order 130
Chapter 2. On the Representation of Quasi-Orders as Generalized Sums147
2.1. Introduction 147
2.2. Equivalence Relations on Q(X) 151
2.3. Generalized Summation of Quasi-Orders and Gorenstein Equivalence 160
2.4. Quasi-Orders and Equivalence Relations on X 165
2.5. Some Classes of Partial Orders 203
2.6. Statement of the Main Results 219
2.7. Proofs of the Main Lemmas 227
2.8. The Equalizer of an Induced Quasi-Order 238
2.9. The Strong Coequalizer of an Induced Quasi-Order 242
2.10. The Coequalizer of an Induced Quasi-Order 246
Chapter 3. The Second Gorenstein Lift of a Quasi-Order 261
3.1. Introduction 261
3.2. Definition of the Quasi-order h(π).
3.3. The Modified Tarski Generalized Sum Decomposition of a Quasi-Order 269
3.4. The Equivalence Relation E(π) 278
3.5. Study of h(π) when h^(π)= X × X 283
Appendix A. A Correspondence between Lattices and Relations 307
A.1. Split Relations 307
A.2. Split Lattices in Matrix Algebras 316
Bibliography 323
Index 325



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