Existence of partial transposition means representability in cylindric algebras

We show that the representability of cylindric algebras by relativized set algebras depends on the scope of the operation transposition which can be defined on the algebra. The existence of “partial transposition” assures this kind of representability of the cylindric algebra (while the existence of transposition assures polyadic representation). Further we characterize those cylindric algebras in which the operator transposition can be introduced (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)