Is this Distributive Lattice?

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My Question :Is this lattice Distributive?

According to me it is bounded complemented lattice as every element has a complement.But they are not unique as d has c,f as complements and b has c,f as complements.So from here i am concluding it is not distributive lattice.

But i found somewhere it is saying that as it is not containing pentagon and diamond structure so it is Distributive .So there is Contradiction.

Please some clarify this.Thanks

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It is indeed non-distributive - in particular, it does contain the pentagon structure ($N_5$, more commonly): just omit $b$ (or $c, d,$ or $f$). Since it contains $N_5$, it's not even modular.

Explicitly, here's one way modularity fails: $d\le b$ but $d\vee (c\wedge b)=d\not\ge b= (d\vee c)\wedge b$.

I am curious where you found the claim that it is distributive.


It is true that your lattice does not contain a copy of $N_5$ as an initial segment; but that's not relevant to distributivity concerns.