Some characterizations of completeness for trellises in terms of joins of cycles

This paper gives some new characterizations of completeness for trellises by introducing the notion of a cycle-complete trellis. One of our results yields, in particular, a characterization of completeness for trellises of finite length due to K. Gladstien (see K. Gladstien: Characterization of completeness for trellises of finite length, Algebra Universalis 3 (1973), 341-344).