Towards Distributivity in FCA for Phylogenetic Data

Abstract

International audienceIt is known that a distributive lattice is a median graph, and that a distributive ∨-semilattice can be thought of as a median graph iff every triple of elements such that the infimum of each couple of its elements exists, has an infimum. Since a lattice without its bottom element is obviously a ∨-semilattice, using the FCA formalism, we investigate the following problem: Given a semilattice L obtained from a lattice by deletion of the bottom element, is there a minimum distributive ∨-semilattice L d such that L can be order embedded into L d ? We give a negative answer to this question by providing a counterexample

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