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Subvarieties of Pseudocomplemented Kleene Algebras

Logic 2020-06-18 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the subdirectly irreducible algebras in the variety PCDM{\cal PCDM} of pseudocomplemented De Morgan algebras by means of their De Morgan pp-spaces. We introduce the notion of bodybody of an algebra LPCDM{\bf L} \in {\cal PCDM} and determine Body(L)Body({\bf L}) when L{\bf L} is subdirectly irreducible. As a consequence of this, in the case of pseudocomplemented Kleene algebras, three special subvarieties arise naturally, for which we give explicit identities that characterize them. We also introduce a subvariety BPK{\cal BPK} of PCDM{\cal PCDM}, namely the variety of bundlebundle pseudocomplementedpseudocomplemented KleeneKleene algebrasalgebras, determine the whole subvariety lattice and find explicit equational bases for each of the subvarieties. In addition, we study the subvariety BPK0{\cal BPK}_0 of BPK{\cal BPK} generated by the simple members of BPK{\cal BPK}, determine the structure of the free algebra over a finite set and their finite weakly projective algebras.

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@article{arxiv.2006.09576,
  title  = {Subvarieties of Pseudocomplemented Kleene Algebras},
  author = {Diego Castaño and Valeria Castaño and José Patricio Díaz Varela and Marcela Muñoz Santis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.09576},
  year   = {2020}
}