The minimal congruence representation Theorem.
Let D be a finite distributive
lattice with n join-irreducible elements. Then there exists a planar
lattice L of O(n2)
elements with Con(L)
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Lakser and E. T. Schmidt, Congruence lattices of small planar lattices,
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D.
Example. Take the distributive lattice D given in Fugure 1 . The lattice L we obtain is shown in Figure 2
Figure 1
Figure 2
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