Notes on sectionally complemented lattices. III

Summary In a recent survey article, G. Grätzer and E. T. Schmidt raise the problem when is the ideal lattice of a sectionally complemented chopped lattice sectionally complemented. The only general result is a 1999 lemma of theirs, stating that if the finite chopped lattice is the union of two ideals that intersect in a two-element ideal U, then the ideal lattice of M is sectionally complemented. In this paper, we present examples showing that in many ways their result is optimal. A typical result is the following: For any finite sectionally complemented lattice U with more than two elements, there exists a finite sectionally complemented chopped lattice M that is (i) the union of two ideals intersecting in the ideal U; (ii) the ideal lattice of M is not sectionally complemented.