Closure operators with anti-exchange #
This file develops the abstract closure-theoretic layer used in
paper/quotient_submodule_equidistribution/main.tex. The definitions do not assume that the
ground type is finite; finiteness enters only in the later finite convex
geometry results.
A closure operator on subsets of E.
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Every point in a closure is already forced by a finite subset.
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The anti-exchange axiom for a closure operator on subsets.
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The closure-theoretic axioms of a convex geometry.
Finiteness of the ground type is deliberately kept separate, so that the same API also applies to the finitary closures occurring for representation-infinite algebras.
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The extreme points of C: the points not generated by the other
points of C.
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If deleting x from a closed set does not regenerate x, the
deletion is closed.
For a point of a closed set, being extreme is equivalent to legal one-point deletion.
Every generating set contains every extreme point.
In a finitary anti-exchange closure with closed empty set, deleting the generating point from its point closure leaves a closed set.
This is the key step behind complete join-irreducibility of point closures in the manuscript.
Distinct points have distinct point closures in a convex geometry.