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Bare canonicity of representable cylindric and polyadic algebras

Logic 2013-05-22 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

We show that for finite n at least 3, every first-order axiomatisation of the varieties of representable n-dimensional cylindric algebras, diagonal-free cylindric algebras, polyadic algebras, and polyadic equality algebras contains an infinite number of non-canonical formulas. We also show that the class of structures for each of these varieties is non-elementary. The proofs employ algebras derived from random graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1202.5961,
  title  = {Bare canonicity of representable cylindric and polyadic algebras},
  author = {Jannis Bulian and Ian Hodkinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.5961},
  year   = {2013}
}