TY - JOUR AU - Garcia, Octavio AU - Nelson, Evelyn T1 - On the nonexistence of free complete distributive lattices JO - Order PY - 1985/12 VL - 1 IS - 4 SP - 399 EP - 403 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00582745 DO - KW - distributive KW - fca KW - free KW - lattice KW - nonexistence KW - variety L1 - SN - N1 - SpringerLink - Abstract N1 - AB - We prove that there is no free object over a countable set in the category of complete distributive lattices with homomorphisms preserving binary meets and arbitrary joins. ER -