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  1. Bounded Lattice:
    • A bounded lattice is a lattice that has two distinguished elements: a greatest element (or maximum), denoted as

        or 1

      , and a least element (or minimum), denoted as  or 0.

       Formally, a lattice is bounded if there exist elements and in such that for all in .

    • Bounded lattices generalize the notion of completeness by providing upper and lower bounds for all elements in the lattice.
  2. Complemented Lattice:
    • A complemented lattice is a lattice in which every element has a unique complement.
    • , there exists a unique element in such that and .

    • Complemented lattices extend the concept of Boolean algebras, where every element has a Boolean complement.
  3. Modular Lattice:
    • A modular lattice is a lattice in which a certain distributive law, known as the modular law, holds.
    • The modular law states that for all elements

       , then .

    • Modular lattices are important in the study of lattice theory, as they exhibit a kind of “local” distributivity property.
  4. Complete Lattice:
    • A complete lattice is a lattice in which every nonempty subset has both a least upper bound (LUB or supremum) and a greatest lower bound (GLB or infimum).
    • Formally, a lattice

      (,)

       

       

      is complete if for every subset of , there exist elements and  in  such that is the LUB of  and  is the GLB of .

    • Complete lattices generalize the concept of bounded lattices by providing arbitrary suprema and infima for subsets of the lattice.

These types of lattices are essential in various areas of mathematics, including algebra, order theory, and computer science, and they offer different degrees of structure and properties for analyzing ordered sets.