Erosion (morphology) - Erosions On Complete Lattices

Erosions On Complete Lattices

Complete lattices are partially ordered sets, where every subset has an infimum and a supremum. In particular, it contains a least element and a greatest element (also denoted "universe").

Let be a complete lattice, with infimum and minimum symbolized by and, respectively. Its universe and least element are symbolized by U and, respectively. Moreover, let be a collection of elements from L.

An erosion in is any operator that distributes over the infimum, and preserves the universe. I.e.:

  • ,
  • .

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