Weakly linear quantum MV-algebras

Quantum MV-algebras (QMV-algebras) are a non lattice-theoretic generalization of MV-algebras (multi-valued algebras) and a non-idempotent generalization of orthomodular lattices. In this paper we construct a finite basis for the variety generated by the class of all weakly linear quantum MV-algebras.Dedicated to the memory of Wim BlokReceived October 12, 2000; accepted in final form October 3, 2004.This revised version was published online in August 2005 with a corrected cover date.     

On implication in MV-algebras

In [1], the authors introduced the notion of a weak implication algebra, which reflects properties of implication in MV-algebras, and demonstrated that the class of weak implication algebras is definitionally equivalent to the class of upper semilattices whose principal filters are compatible MV-algebras. It is easily seen that weak implication algebras are just duals of commutative BCK-algebras. We show here that most results of [1] are, in fact, immediate consequences of two well-known facts: (i) a bounded commutative BCK-algebra possesses a natural upper semilattice structure, (ii) the class of MV-algebras and that of bounded commutative BCK-algebras are definitionally equivalent. Presented by I. Hodkinson. Received November 11, 2005; accepted in final form November 26, 2005.     

Representation theory of MV-algebras

In this paper we develop a general representation theory for MV-algebras. We furnish the appropriate categorical background to study this problem. Our guide line is the theory of classifying topoi of coherent extensions of universal algebra theories. Our main result corresponds, in the case of MV-algebras and MV-chains, to the representation of commutative rings with unit as rings of global sections of sheaves of local rings. We prove that any MV-algebra is isomorphic to the MV-algebra of all global sections of a sheaf of MV-chains on a compact topological space. This result is intimately related to McNaughton’s theorem, and we explain why our representation theorem can be viewed as a vast generalization of McNaughton’s theorem. In spite of the language used in this abstract, we have written this paper in the hope that it can be read by experts in MV-algebras but not in sheaf theory, and conversely.     

MV-algebras: a variety for magnitudes with archimedean units

Chang’s MV-algebras, on the one hand, are the algebras of the infinite-valued Łukasiewicz calculus and, on the other hand, are categorically equivalent to abelian lattice-ordered groups with a distinguished strong unit, for short, unital ℓ-groups. The latter are a modern mathematization of the time-honored euclidean magnitudes with an archimedean unit. While for magnitudes the unit is no less important than the zero element, its archimedean property is not even definable in first-order logic. This gives added interest to the equivalent representation of unital ℓ-groups via the equational class of MV-algebras. In this paper we survey several applications of this equivalence, and various properties of the variety of MV-algebras.Dedicated to the Memory of Wim BlokReceived August 26, 2003; accepted in final form October 3, 2004.This revised version was published online in August 2005 with a corrected cover date.     

State-morphism MV-algebras

We present a stronger variation of state MV-algebras, recently presented by T. Flaminio and F. Montagna, which we call state-morphism MV-algebras. Such structures are MV-algebras with an internal notion, a state-morphism operator. We describe the categorical equivalences of such (state-morphism) state MV-algebras with the category of unital Abelian ?-groups with a fixed state operator and present their basic properties. In addition, in contrast to state MV-algebras, we are able to describe all subdirectly irreducible state-morphism MV-algebras.     

A characterization of free generating sets in MV-algebras

MV-algebras are a generalization of Boolean algebras. As is well known, a free generating set for a Boolean algebra is characterized by the following simple algebraic condition: whenever A and B are finite disjoint subsets of X then . Our aim in this note is to give a similar characterization of free generating sets in MV-algebras. Received January 30, 2005; accepted in final form March 13, 2007.     

On the structure of generalized BL-algebras

A generalized BL - algebra (or GBL-algebra for short) is a residuated lattice that satisfies the identities . It is shown that all finite GBL-algebras are commutative, hence they can be constructed by iterating ordinal sums and direct products of Wajsberg hoops. We also observe that the idempotents in a GBL-algebra form a subalgebra of elements that commute with all other elements. Subsequently we construct subdirectly irreducible noncommutative integral GBL-algebras that are not ordinal sums of generalized MV-algebras. We also give equational bases for the varieties generated by such algebras. The construction provides a new way of order-embedding the lattice of -group varieties into the lattice of varieties of integral GBLalgebras. The results of this paper also apply to pseudo-BL algebras. This paper is dedicated to Walter Taylor. Received March 7, 2005; accepted in final form July 25, 2005.     

Free products of unital ℓ-groups and free products of generalized MV-algebras

We generalize Komori’s characterization of the proper subvarieties of MV-algebras. Namely, within the variety of generalized MV-algebras (GMV-algebras) such that every maximal ideal is normal, we characterize the proper top varieties. In addition, we present equational bases for these top varieties. We show that there are only countably many different proper top varieties and each of them has uncountably many subvarieties. Finally, we study coproducts and we show that the amalgamation property fails for the class of n-perfect GMV-algebras, i.e., GMV-algebras that can be split into n + 1 comparable slices. This paper has been supported by the Center of Excellence SAS -Physics of Information-I/2/2005, the grant VEGA No. 2/6088/26 SAV, by Science and Technology Assistance Agency under the contracts No. APVT-51-032002, APVV-0071-06, Bratislava.     

On some classes of state-morphism MV-algebras

Flaminio and Montagna recently introduced state MV-algebras as MV-algebras with an internal notion of a state. The present authors gave a stronger version of state MV-algebras, called state-morphism MV-algebras. We present some classes of state-morphism MV-algebras like local, simple, semisimple state-morphism MV-algebras, and state-morphism MV-algebras with retractive ideals. Finally, we describe state-morphism operators on m-free generated MV-algebras, m < ∞.     

Canonical extensions of double quasioperator algebras: An algebraic perspective on duality for certain algebras with binary operations

The context for this paper is a class of distributive lattice expansions, called double quasioperator algebras (DQAs). The distinctive feature of these algebras is that their operations preserve or reverse both join and meet in each coordinate. Algebras of this type provide algebraic semantics for certain non-classical propositional logics. In particular, MV-algebras, which model the ?ukasiewicz infinite-valued logic, are DQAs.Varieties of DQAs are here studied through their canonical extensions. A variety of this type having additional operations of arity at least 2 may fail to be canonical; it is already known, for example, that the variety of MV-algebras is not. Non-canonicity occurs when basic operations have two distinct canonical extensions and both are necessary to capture the structure of the original algebra. This obstruction to canonicity is different in nature from that customarily found in other settings. A generalized notion of canonicity is introduced which is shown to circumvent the problem. In addition, generalized canonicity allows one to capture on the canonical extensions of DQAs the algebraic operations in such a way that the laws that these obey may be translated into first-order conditions on suitable frames. This correspondence may be seen as the algebraic component of duality, in a way which is made precise.In many cases of interest, binary residuated operations are present. An operation h which, coordinatewise, preserves ∨ and 0 lifts to an operation which is residuated, even when h is not. If h also preserves binary meet then the upper adjoints behave in a functional way on the frames.     

State morphism MV-algebras

We present a complete characterization of subdirectly irreducible MV-algebras with internal states (SMV-algebras). This allows us to classify subdirectly irreducible state morphism MV-algebras (SMMV-algebras) and describe single generators of the variety of SMMV-algebras, and show that we have a continuum of varieties of SMMV-algebras.     

Many-valued quantum algebras

We deal with algebras of the same signature as MV-algebras which are a common extension of MV-algebras and orthomodular lattices, in the sense that (i) A bears a natural lattice structure, (ii) the elements a for which is a complement in the lattice form an orthomodular sublattice, and (iii) subalgebras whose elements commute are MV-algebras. We also discuss the connections with lattice-ordered effect algebras and prove that they form a variety. Supported by the Research and Development Council of the Czech Government via the project MSM6198959214.     

Generalizations of Boolean products for lattice-ordered algebras

It is shown that the Boolean center of complemented elements in a bounded integral residuated lattice characterizes direct decompositions. Generalizing both Boolean products and poset sums of residuated lattices, the concepts of poset product, Priestley product and Esakia product of algebras are defined and used to prove decomposition theorems for various ordered algebras. In particular, we show that FL_w-algebras decompose as a poset product over any finite set of join irreducible strongly central elements, and that bounded n-potent GBL-algebras are represented as Esakia products of simple n-potent MV-algebras.     

An analysis of the logic of Riesz spaces with strong unit

We study ?ukasiewicz logic enriched by a scalar multiplication with scalars in $[0,1]$. Its algebraic models, called Riesz MV-algebras, are, up to isomorphism, unit intervals of Riesz spaces with strong unit endowed with an appropriate structure. When only rational scalars are considered, one gets the class of DMV-algebras and a corresponding logical system. Our research follows two objectives. The first one is to deepen the connections between functional analysis and the logic of Riesz MV-algebras. The second one is to study the finitely presented MV-algebras, DMV-algebras and Riesz MV-algebras, connecting them from logical, algebraic and geometric perspective.     

Erratum to “State-morphism MV-algebras” [Ann. Pure Appl. Logic 161 (2009) 161-173]

Recently, the first two authors characterized in Di Nola and Dvure?enskij (2009) [1] subdirectly irreducible state-morphism MV-algebras. Unfortunately, the main theorem (Theorem 5.4(ii)) has a gap in the proof of Claim 10, as the example below shows. We now present a correct characterization and its correct proof.     

Abelian <Emphasis Type="Italic">ℓ</Emphasis>-Groups with Strong Unit and Perfect MV-Algebras

We investigate the class of abelian ℓ-groups with strong unit corresponding to perfect MV-algebras via the Γ functor, showing that this is a universal subclass of the class of all abelian ℓ-groups with strong unit and describing the formulas that axiomatize it. We further describe results for classes of abelian ℓ-groups with strong unit corresponding to local MV-algebras with finite rank.     

States on commutative basic algebras

The paper deals with states on commutative basic algebras that are a non-associative generalization of MV-algebras or, in other words, the algebraic semantics for a fuzzy logic which generalizes the ?ukasiewicz logic in that the conjunction is not associative. States are defined in the same way as Mundici's states on MV-algebras as normalized finitely additive [0,1]-valued functions, and some results analogous to the results that are known from MV-algebras are proved.     

Series-parallel posets and relative Ockham lattices

A study is undertaken of order-reversing maps on series-parallel posets and structural characterisations are obtained of various subclasses of such ordered sets. The results are applied to complete the authors' earlier investigation of classes of finite relate lattices, where is a variety of Ockham lattices and the distributive lattice duals of the algebras in are required to be series-parallel.     

MV-algebras with operators (the commutative and the non-commutative case)

In the present paper we define the (pseudo) MV-algebras with n-ary operators, generalizing MV-modules and product MV-algebras. Our main results assert that there are bijective correspondences between the operators defined on a pseudo MV-algebra and the operators defined on the corresponding ℓ-group. We also provide a categorical framework and we prove the analogue of Mundici's categorical equivalence between MV-algebras and abelian ℓ-groups with strong unit. Thus, the category of pseudo MV-algebras with operators is equivalent to some category of ℓ-groups with operators.