Clones of Borel Boolean Functions
Abstract
We study the lattice of all Borel clones on : classes of Borel functions , , 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 , 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