The lattice of seminorms is not distributive

We provide an example of three seminorms over the ℝ-vector space ℝ×ℝ which don't satisfy the lattice distributivity property (p ⊔ q1) ⊓ (p ⊔ q2) ≤ p ⊔ (q1 ⊓ q2).

This proves the lattice Seminorm ℝ (ℝ × ℝ) is not distributive.

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminorm#Examples

noncomputable def Counterexample.SeminormNotDistrib.p : Seminorm ℝ (ℝ × ℝ)

Equations

• Counterexample.SeminormNotDistrib.p = (normSeminorm ℝ ℝ).comp (LinearMap.fst ℝ ℝ ℝ) ⊔ (normSeminorm ℝ ℝ).comp (LinearMap.snd ℝ ℝ ℝ)

@[simp]

theorem Counterexample.SeminormNotDistrib.p_toFun (a✝ : ℝ × ℝ) : p a✝ = |a✝.1| ⊔ |a✝.2|

noncomputable def Counterexample.SeminormNotDistrib.q1 : Seminorm ℝ (ℝ × ℝ)

Equations

• Counterexample.SeminormNotDistrib.q1 = 4 • (normSeminorm ℝ ℝ).comp (LinearMap.fst ℝ ℝ ℝ)

@[simp]

theorem Counterexample.SeminormNotDistrib.q1_toFun (x : ℝ × ℝ) : q1 x = 4 • |x.1|

noncomputable def Counterexample.SeminormNotDistrib.q2 : Seminorm ℝ (ℝ × ℝ)

Equations

• Counterexample.SeminormNotDistrib.q2 = 4 • (normSeminorm ℝ ℝ).comp (LinearMap.snd ℝ ℝ ℝ)

@[simp]

theorem Counterexample.SeminormNotDistrib.q2_toFun (x : ℝ × ℝ) : q2 x = 4 • |x.2|

theorem Counterexample.SeminormNotDistrib.eq_one : (p ⊔ q1 ⊓ q2) (1, 1) = 1

theorem Counterexample.SeminormNotDistrib.not_distrib : ¬(p ⊔ q1) ⊓ (p ⊔ q2) ≤ p ⊔ q1 ⊓ q2

This is a counterexample to the distributivity of the lattice Seminorm ℝ (ℝ × ℝ).