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Varieties of Regular Pseudocomplemented de Morgan Algebras

Logic 2020-01-20 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the varieties Mn\mathbf M_n and Kn\mathbf K_n of regular pseudocomplemented de Morgan and Kleene algebras of range nn, respectively. Priestley duality as it applies to pseudocomplemented de Morgan algebras is used. We characterise the dual spaces of the simple (equivalently, subdirectly irreducible) algebras in Mn\mathbf M_n and explicitly describe the dual spaces of the simple algebras in M1\mathbf M_1 and K1\mathbf K_1. We show that the variety M1\mathbf M_1 is locally finite, but this property does not extend to Mn\mathbf M_n or even Kn\mathbf K_n for n2n \geq 2. We also show that the lattice of subvarieties of K1\mathbf K_1 is an ω+1\omega + 1 chain and the cardinality of the lattice of subvarieties of either K2\mathbf K_2 or M1\mathbf M_1 is 2ω2^{\omega}. A description of the lattice of subvarieties of M1\mathbf M_1 is given.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2001.06134,
  title  = {Varieties of Regular Pseudocomplemented de Morgan Algebras},
  author = {M. E. Adams and H. P. Sankappanavar and Júlia Vaz de Carvalho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.06134},
  year   = {2020}
}

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29 pages; 2 figures

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