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By a recent observation of Monjardet and Wille, a finite distributive lattice is generated by its doubly irreducible elements iff the poset of all join-irreducible elements has a distributive MacNeille completion. This fact is generalized in several directions, by dropping the finiteness condition and considering various types of bigeneration via arbitrary meets and certain distinguished joins. This leads to a deeper investigation of so-called L-generators resp. C-subbases, translating well-known notions of topology to order theory. A strong relationship is established between bigeneration by (minimal) L-generators and so-called principal separation, which is defined in order-theoretical terms but may be regarded as a strong topological separation axiom. For suitable L, the complete lattices with a smallest join-dense L-subbasis consisting of L-primes are the L-completions of principally separated posets.
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Erné, M. Bigeneration in complete lattices and principal separation in ordered sets. Order 8, 197–221 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00383404
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