Upper and lower sets

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Upper and lower sets by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-10-20
In a partially ordered set , an upper set satisfies and ; a lower set satisfies and . The complement of a set exchanges the two conditions: if and , then would force , so is lower. In a Boolean lattice ordered by inclusion, these are the up-set and down-set conditions.

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