Higher-dimensional book-spaces

Abstract

In 2017, Walter Taylor showed that there exist $2$-dimensional simplicial complexes which admit the structure of topological modular lattice but not topological distributive lattice. We give a positive answer to his question as to whether $n$-dimensional simplicial complexes with the same property exist. We do this by giving, for each $n\ge 2$, an infinite family of compact simplicial complexes which admit the structure of topological modular lattice but not topological distributive lattice.