Atoms of the lattices of residuated mappings

Given a lattice L, we denote by Res(L) the lattice of all residuated maps on L. The main objective of the paper is to study the atoms of Res(L) where L is a complete lattice. Note that the description of dual atoms of Res(L) easily follows from earlier results of Shmuely (1974). We first consider lattices L for which all atoms of Res(L) are mappings with 2-element range and give a sufficient condition for this. Extending this result, we characterize these atoms of Res(L) which are weakly regular residuated maps in the sense of Blyth and Janowitz (Residuation Theory, 1972). In the rest of the paper we investigate the atoms of Res(M) where M is the lattice of a finite projective plane, in particular, we describe the atoms of Res(F), where F is the lattice of the Fano plane.