Finite Abelian algebras are dualizable
Abstract
A finite algebra is \emph{dualizable} if there exists a discrete topological relational structure , compatible with , such that the canonical evaluation map is an isomorphism for every in the quasivariety generated by . Here, is defined by for all and all . We prove that, given a finite congruence-modular Abelian algebra , the set of all relations compatible with , up to a certain arity, \emph{entails} the whole set of all relations compatible with . By using a classical compactness result, we infer that is dualizable. Moreover we can choose a dualizing alter-ego with only relations of arity , where is the largest exponent of a prime in the prime decomposition of . This improves Kearnes and Szendrei result that modules are dualizable, and Bentz and Mayr's result that finite modules with constants are dualizable. This also solves a problem stated by Bentz and Mayr in 2013.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.02651,
title = {Finite Abelian algebras are dualizable},
author = {Pierre Gillibert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.02651},
year = {2015}
}