English

Clones of Borel Boolean Functions

Logic 2024-07-10 v1

Abstract

We study the lattice of all Borel clones on 2={0,1}2 = \{0,1\}: classes of Borel functions f:2n2f : 2^n \to 2, nωn \le \omega, which are closed under composition and include all projections. This is a natural extension to countable arities of Post's 1941 classification of all clones of finitary Boolean functions. Every Borel clone restricts to a finitary clone, yielding a "projection" from the lattice of all Borel clones to Post's lattice. It is well-known that each finitary clone of affine mod 2 functions admits a unique extension to a Borel clone. We show that over each finitary clone containing either both ,\wedge, \vee, or the 2-out-of-3 median operation, there lie at least 2 but only finitely many Borel clones. Over the remaining clones in Post's lattice, we give only a partial classification of the Borel extensions, and present some evidence that the full structure may be quite complicated.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2407.06719,
  title  = {Clones of Borel Boolean Functions},
  author = {Ruiyuan Chen and Ilir Ziba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06719},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

58 pages, 14 figures

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