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 Algebra Universalis   [SJR: 0.388]   [H-I: 22]   [2 followers]  Follow         Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)    ISSN (Print) 1420-8911 - ISSN (Online) 0002-5240    Published by Springer-Verlag  [2335 journals]
• Varieties with equationally definable factor congruences II
• Authors: Mariana Badano; Diego J. Vaggione
Abstract: We study four types of equational definability of factor congruences in varieties with $${\vec{0}}$$ and $${\vec{1}}$$ . The paper completes the work of a previous paper on left equational definability of factor congruences.
PubDate: 2017-02-25
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0434-3

• Kleene algebras with implication
• Authors: José Luis Castiglioni; Sergio Arturo Celani; Hernán Javier San Martín
Abstract: Inspired by an old construction due to J. Kalman that relates distributive lattices and centered Kleene algebras, in this paper we study an equivalence for certain categories whose objects are algebras with implication $${(H, \bigwedge, \bigvee, \rightarrow, 0,1)}$$ which satisfy the following property for every $${a,b,c\, \in\, H}$$ : if $${a \leq b \rightarrow c}$$ , then $${a \bigwedge b \leq c}$$ .
PubDate: 2017-02-10
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0433-4

• Relative subalgebras of MV-algebras
• Authors: Lawrence Peter Belluce; Antonio Di Nola; Giacomo Lenzi
Abstract: Given an MV-algebra A, with its natural partial ordering, we consider in A the intervals of the form [0, a], where $${a \in A}$$ . These intervals have a natural structure of MV-algebras and will be called the relative subalgebras of A (in analogy with Boolean algebras). We investigate various properties of relative subalgebras and their relations with the original MV-algebra.
PubDate: 2017-02-09
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0435-2

• Free products of doppelsemigroups
• Authors: Anatolii V. Zhuchok
Abstract: In this paper, we consider doppelsemigroups, which are sets with two binary associative operations satisfying additional axioms. Commutative dimonoids in the sense of Loday are examples of doppelsemigroups and two interassociative semigroups give rise to a doppelsemigroup. The main result of this paper is the construction of the free product of doppelsemigroups. We also construct the free doppelsemigroup, the free commutative doppelsemigroup, the free n-nilpotent doppelsemigroup, and characterize the least commutative congruence and the least n-nilpotent congruence on a free doppelsemigroup.
PubDate: 2017-02-09
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0431-6

• Constellations and their relationship with categories
• Authors: Victoria Gould; Tim Stokes
Abstract: Constellations are partial algebras that are one-sided generalisations of categories. Indeed, we show that a category is exactly a constellation that also satisfies the left-right dual axioms. Constellations have previously appeared in the context of inductive constellations: the category of inductive constellations is known to be isomorphic to the category of left restriction semigroups. Here we consider constellations in full generality, giving many examples. We characterise those small constellations that are isomorphic to constellations of partial functions. We examine in detail the relationship between constellations and categories. In particular, we characterise those constellations that arise as (sub-)reducts of categories. We demonstrate that the notion of substructure can be captured within constellations but not within categories. We show that every constellation P gives rise to a category $${\mathcal{C}(P)}$$ , its canonical extension, in a simplest possible way, and that P is a quotient of $${\mathcal{C}(P)}$$ in a natural sense. We also show that many of the most common concrete categories may be constructed from simpler quotient constellations using this construction. We characterise the canonical congruences $${\delta}$$ on a given category $${K}$$ (those for which $${K \cong \mathcal{C}(K/\delta))}$$ , and show that the category of constellations is equivalent to the category of $${\delta}$$ -categories, that is, categories equipped with distinguished canonical congruence $${\delta}$$ . The main observation of this paper is that category theory as it applies to the familiar concrete categories of modern mathematics (which come equipped with natural notions of substructures and indeed are $${\delta}$$ -categories) may be subsumed by constellation theory.
PubDate: 2017-02-09
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0432-5

• A topological characterisation of endomorphism monoids of countable
structures
• Authors: Manuel Bodirsky; Friedrich Martin Schneider
Abstract: A topological monoid is isomorphic to an endomorphism monoid of a countable structure if and only if it is separable and has a compatible complete ultrametric such that composition from the left is non-expansive. We also give a topological characterisation of those topological monoids that are isomorphic to endomorphism monoids of countable $${\omega}$$ -categorical structures. Finally, we present analogous characterisations for polymorphism clones of countable structures and for polymorphism clones of countable $${\omega}$$ -categorical structures.
PubDate: 2017-02-06
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0427-2

• Transformation monoids with finite monoidal intervals
• Authors: Miklós Dormán
Abstract: In this paper, we investigate transformation monoids that are built up from inverse transformation monoids constructed from finite lattices by adding all the unary constant transformations. We give a complete description for the corresponding monoidal intervals in the clone lattice.
PubDate: 2017-02-03
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0425-4

• Sasaki projections
• Authors: Jeannine J. M. Gabriëls; Stephen M. Gagola; Mirko Navara
Abstract: We collect, correct, and extend results on the properties of the Sasaki projection in orthomodular lattices. We bring arguments as to why this operation can extend tools for simplification of formulas and automated computing.
PubDate: 2017-02-01
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0428-1

• Canonical formulas for k -potent commutative, integral, residuated
lattices
• Authors: Nick Bezhanishvili; Nick Galatos; Luca Spada
Abstract: Canonical formulas are a powerful tool for studying intuitionistic and modal logics. Indeed, they provide a uniform and semantic way of axiomatising all extensions of intuitionistic logic and all modal logics above K4. Although the method originally hinged on the relational semantics of those logics, recently it has been completely recast in algebraic terms. In this new perspective, canonical formulas are built from a finite subdirectly irreducible algebra by describing completely the behaviour of some operations and only partially the behaviour of some others. In this paper, we export the machinery of canonical formulas to substructural logics by introducing canonical formulas for k-potent, commutative, integral, residuated lattices (k-CIRL). We show that any subvariety of k-CIRL is axiomatised by canonical formulas. The paper ends with some applications and examples.
PubDate: 2017-02-01
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0430-7

• On implicator groupoids
• Authors: Juan M. Cornejo; Hanamantagouda P. Sankappanavar
Abstract: In a paper published in 2012, the second author extended the well-known fact that Boolean algebras can be defined using only implication and a constant, to De Morgan algebras—this result led him to introduce, and investigate (in the same paper), the variety $${\mathcal{I}}$$ of algebras, there called implication zroupoids (I-zroupoids) and here called implicator groupoids ( $${\mathcal{I}}$$ -groupoids), that generalize De Morgan algebras. The present paper is a continuation of the paper mentioned above and is devoted to investigating the structure of the lattice of subvarieties of $${\mathcal{I}}$$ , and also to making further contributions to the theory of implicator groupoids. Several new subvarieties of $${\mathcal{I}}$$ are introduced and their relationship with each other, and with the subvarieties of $${\mathcal{I}}$$ which were already investigated in the paper mentioned above, are explored.
PubDate: 2017-02-01
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0429-0

• Key (critical) relations preserved by a weak near-unanimity function
• Authors: Dmitriy N. Zhuk
Abstract: In the paper, we introduce a notion of a key relation, which is similar to the notion of a critical relation introduced by Keith A. Kearnes and Ágnes Szendrei. All clones on finite sets can be defined by only key relations. In addition, there is a nice description of all key relations on 2 elements. These are exactly the relations that can be defined as a disjunction of linear equations. In the paper, we show that in general, key relations do not have such a nice description. Nevertheless, we obtain a nice characterization of all key relations preserved by a weak near-unanimity function. This characterization is presented in the paper.
PubDate: 2017-01-31
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0426-3

• Natural congruences and isomorphism theorems for directed complete
partially ordered sets
• Authors: Mojgan Mahmoudi; Halimeh Moghbeli; Konrad Pióro
Abstract: Directed complete partially ordered sets (dcpos, for short) play an important role in domain theory. The aim of this paper is to characterise natural congruences of dcpos. We also show that the kernels of dcpo maps, that is, directed join-preserving maps between dcpos are not necessarily natural dcpo congruences. Then we characterise dcpo maps whose kernels are natural dcpo congruences. Finally, we prove the Decomposition and Isomorphism Theorems for dcpo maps.
PubDate: 2017-01-18
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0424-5

• Duality in non-abelian algebra III. Normal categories and 0-regular
varieties
• Authors: Zurab Janelidze; Thomas Weighill
Abstract: Normal categories are pointed categorical counterparts of 0-regular varieties, i.e., varieties where each congruence is uniquely determined by the equivalence class of a fixed constant 0. In this paper, we give a new axiomatic approach to normal categories, which uses self-dual axioms on a functor defined using subobjects of objects in the category. We also show that a similar approach can be developed for 0-regular varieties, if we replace subobjects with subsets of algebras containing 0.
PubDate: 2017-01-17
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0422-7

• Stone MV-algebras and strongly complete MV-algebras
• Authors: Jean B. Nganou
Abstract: Characterizations of compact Hausdorff topological MV-algebras, Stone MV-algebras, and MV-algebras that are isomorphic to their profinite completions are established. It is proved that compact Hausdorff topological MV-algebras are products (both topological and algebraic) of copies [0, 1] with the interval topology and finite Łukasiewicz chains with the discrete topology. Going one step further, we also prove that Stone MV-algebras are products (both topological and algebraic) of finite Łukasiewicz chains with the discrete topology. Finally, it is proved that an MV-algebra is isomorphic to its profinite completion if and only if it is profinite and each of its maximal ideals of finite rank is principal.
PubDate: 2017-01-17
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-016-0421-0

• Weak complemented and weak invertible elements in C -lattices
• Authors: C. Jayaram
Abstract: In this paper, we prove that an indecomposable M-lattice is either a principal element domain or a special principal element lattice. Next, we introduce weak complemented elements and characterize reduced M-lattices in terms of weak complemented elements. We also study weak invertible elements and locally weak invertible elements in C-lattices and characterize reduced Prüfer lattices, WI-lattices, reduced almost principal element lattices, and reduced principal element lattices in terms of locally weak invertible elements.
PubDate: 2017-01-17
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-017-0423-6

• Maltsev families of varieties closed under join or Maltsev product
• Authors: Ralph Freese; Ralph McKenzie
Abstract: Maltsev families of varieties which are closed under join or Maltsev product are investigated. New Maltsev conditions for congruence semi-distributivity are given.
PubDate: 2017-01-10
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-016-0420-1

• On the interval of strong partial clones of Boolean functions containing
Pol({(0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 0)})
Abstract: D. Lau raised the problem of determining the cardinality of the set of all partial clones of Boolean functions whose total part is a given Boolean clone. The key step in the solution of this problem, which was obtained recently by the authors, was to show that the sublattice of strong partial clones on $$\{0, 1\}$$ that contain all total functions preserving the relation $${\rho_{0,2} = \{(0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 0)\}}$$ is of continuum cardinality. In this paper, we represent relations derived from $${\rho_{0,2}}$$ in terms of graphs, and we define a suitable closure operator on graphs such that the lattice of closed sets of graphs is isomorphic to the dual of this uncountable sublattice of strong partial clones. With the help of this duality, we provide a rough description of the structure of this lattice, and we also obtain a new proof for its uncountability.
PubDate: 2017-01-06
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-016-0418-8

• Representing some families of monotone maps by principal lattice
congruences
• Authors: Gábor Czédli
Abstract: For a lattice L with 0 and 1, let Princ(L) denote the set of principal congruences of L. Ordered by set inclusion, it is a bounded ordered set. In 2013, G. Grätzer proved that every bounded ordered set is representable as Princ(L); in fact, he constructed L as a lattice of length 5. For {0, 1}-sublattices $${A \subseteq B}$$ of L, congruence generation defines a natural map Princ(A) $${\longrightarrow}$$ Princ(B). In this way, every family of {0, 1}-sublattices of L yields a small category of bounded ordered sets as objects and certain 0-separating {0, 1}-preserving monotone maps as morphisms such that every hom-set consists of at most one morphism. We prove the converse: every small category of bounded ordered sets with these properties is representable by principal congruences of selfdual lattices of length 5 in the above sense. As a corollary, we can construct a selfdual lattice L in G. Grätzer's above-mentioned result.
PubDate: 2017-01-03
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-016-0419-7

• Uncountable critical points for congruence lattices
• Authors: Miroslav Ploščica
Abstract: The critical point between two classes $${{\mathcal K}}$$ and $${{\mathcal L}}$$ of algebras is the cardinality of the smallest semilattice isomorphic to the semilattice of compact congruences of some algebra in $${{\mathcal K}}$$ , but not in $${{\mathcal L}}$$ . Our paper is devoted to the problem of determining the critical point between two finitely generated congruence-distributive varieties. For a homomorphism $${\varphi: S \rightarrow T}$$ of $${(0, \vee)}$$ -semilattices and an automorphism $${\tau}$$ of T, we introduce the concept of a $${\tau}$$ -symmetric lifting of $${\varphi}$$ . We use it to prove a criterion which ensures that the critical point between two finitely generated congruence-distributive varieties is less or equal to $${\aleph_{1}}$$ . We illustrate the criterion by constructing two new examples with the critical point exactly $${\aleph_{1}}$$ .
PubDate: 2016-10-08
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-016-0411-2

• On the sobriety of the inverse topology
• Authors: Papiya Bhattacharjee; Themba Dube
Abstract: An algebraic frame L with the finite intersection property (FIP) on compact elements is said to be polarised if every minimal prime element in it is complemented. In this note, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the inverse topology on the set of minimal prime elements of such a frame to be sober. We also establish some sufficient conditions for sobriety when the polarisation condition is relaxed.
PubDate: 2016-10-08
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-016-0414-z

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