Terms that are self-dual in Boolean algebras but not in MO 2

An absorption law is an identity of the form p = x. The ternary function x+y+z (ring addition) in Boolean algebras satisfies three absorption laws in two variables. If a term satisfies these three identities in a variety, it is called a minority term for that variety. We construct a minority term p for orthomodular lattices such the identity defines Boolean algebras modulo orthomodular lattices. (The dual of p is denoted by .) Consequently, having a unique minority term function characterizes Boolean algebras among orthomodular lattices. Our main result generalizes this example to arbitrary arity and arbitrary consistent sets of 2-variable absorption laws. Presented by J. Berman.     

On the semidistributivity of elements in weak congruence lattices of algebras and groups

Weak congruence lattices and semidistributive congruence lattices are both recent topics in universal algebra. This motivates the main result of the present paper, which asserts that a finite group G is a Dedekind group if and only if the diagonal relation is a join-semidistributive element in the lattice of weak congruences of G. A variant in terms of subgroups rather than weak congruences is also given. It is pointed out that no similar result is valid for rings. An open problem and some results on the join-semidistributivity of weak congruence lattices are also included. This research of the second and third authors was partially supported by Serbian Ministry of Science and Environment, Grant No. 144011 and by the Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, grant ”Lattice methods and applications”.     

Equational theories as congruences of enriched monoids

The problem of characterizing the lattices of equational theories is still unsolved. In this paper we describe a class of monoids enriched by two unary operations and show that a lattice L is a lattice of equational theories if and only if L is isomorphic to a lattice of congruences of some enriched monoid belonging to . The author was supported by INTAS grant 03-51-4110 and The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.     

Skew Boolean algebras derived from generalized Boolean algebras

Every skew Boolean algebra S has a maximal generalized Boolean algebra image given by S/ where is the Green’s relation defined initially on semigroups. In this paper we study skew Boolean algebras constructed from generalized Boolean algebras B by a twisted product construction for which . In particular we study the congruence lattice of with an eye to viewing as a minimal skew Boolean cover of B. This construction is the object part of a functor from the category GB of generalized Boolean algebras to the category LSB of left-handed skew Boolean algebras. Thus we also look at its left adjoint functor . This paper was written while the second author was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Cagliari. The facilities and assistance provided by the University and by the Department are gratefully acknowledged.     

Riesz ideals in generalized effect algebras and in their unitizations

We show that quotients of generalized effect algebras by Riesz ideals preserve some important special properties, e.g., homogeneity and hereditary Riesz decomposition properties; moreover, quotients of generalized orthoalgebras, weak generalized orthomodular posets, generalized orthomodular lattices and generalized MV-algebras with respect to Riesz ideals belong to the same class. We give a necessary and sufficient condition under which a Riesz ideal I of a generalized effect algebra P is a Riesz ideal also in the unitization E of P. We also study relations between Riesz ideals and central elements in GEAs and in their unitizations. In the last section, we demonstrate the notion of Riesz ideals by some illustrative examples. Received June 28, 2005; accepted in final form January 23, 2007.     

Convexities of partial monounary algebras

In the present paper we prove that the collection of all convexities of partial monounary algebras is finite; namely, it has exactly 23 elements. Further, we show that for each element there exists a subset of such that is generated by and card . This work was supported by the Science and Technology Assistance Agency under the contract No. APVT-20-004104. Supported by Grant VEGA 1/3003/06.     

Natural dualities for semilattice-based algebras

While every finite lattice-based algebra is dualisable, the same is not true of semilattice-based algebras. We show that a finite semilattice-based algebra is dualisable if all its operations are compatible with the semilattice operation. We also give examples of infinite semilattice-based algebras that are dualisable. In contrast, we present a general condition that guarantees the inherent non-dualisability of a finite semilattice-based algebra. We combine our results to characterise dualisability amongst the finite algebras in the classes of flat extensions of partial algebras and closure semilattices. Throughout, we emphasise the connection between the dualisability of an algebra and the residual character of the variety it generates. Presented by R. Willard.     

Subdirect products of hereditary congruence lattices

A congruence lattice L of an algebra A is called power-hereditary if every 0-1 sublattice of Lⁿ is the congruence lattice of an algebra on Aⁿ for all positive integers n. Let A and B be finite algebras. We prove

Congruences on equivalence algebras

A certain class of atomic, semimodular, semisimple partition lattices is studied. It is shown that this class is precisely the class of congruence lattices of equivalence algebras. The first author is granted by project POCTI-ISFL-1-143 of the “Centro de álgebra da Universidade de Lisboa”, supported by FCT and FEDER.     

The inflation class operator

We consider the inflation class operator, denoted by F, where for any class K of algebras, F(K) is the class of all inflations of algebras in K. We study the interaction of this operator with the usual algebraic operators H, S andP, and describe the partially-ordered monoid generated by H, S, P andF (with the isomorphism operator I as an identity). Received February 3, 2004; accepted in final form January 3, 2006.     

Endomorphisms of monadic Boolean algebras

A classical result about Boolean algebras independently proved by Magill [10], Maxson [11], and Schein [17] says that non-trivial Boolean algebras are isomorphic whenever their endomorphism monoids are isomorphic. The main point of this note is to show that the finite part of this classical result is true within monadic Boolean algebras. By contrast, there exists a proper class of non-isomorphic (necessarily) infinite monadic Boolean algebras the endomorphism monoid of each of which has only one element (namely, the identity), this being the first known example of a variety that is not universal (in the sense of Hedrlín and Pultr), but contains a proper class of non-isomorphic rigid algebras (that is, the identity is the only endomorphism). Received February 3, 2006; accepted in final form September 5, 2006.     

Weakly representable relation algebras form a variety

We prove that the class of weakly representable relation algebras is closed under homomorphic images, hence it is a variety. As a corollary we classify the subdirectly irreducible algebras in this class. Received April 3, 2007; accepted in final form February 7, 2008.     

Poset algebras over well quasi-ordered posets

A new class of partial order-types, class is defined and investigated here. A poset P is in the class iff the poset algebra F(P) is generated by a better quasi-order G that is included in L(P). The free Boolean algebra F(P) and its free distributive lattice L(P) have been defined in [ABKR]. The free Boolean algebra F(P) contains the partial order P and is generated by it: F(P) has the following universal property. If B is any Boolean algebra and f is any order-preserving map from P into a Boolean algebra B, then f can be extended to a homomorphism of F(P) into B. We also define L(P) as the sublattice of F(P) generated by P. We prove that if P is any well quasi-ordering, then L(P) is well founded, and is a countable union of well quasi-orderings. We prove that the class is contained in the class of well quasi-ordered sets. We prove that is preserved under homomorphic image, finite products, and lexicographic sum over better quasi-ordered index sets. We prove also that every countable well quasi-ordered set is in . We do not know, however if the class of well quasi-ordered sets is contained in . Additional results concern homomorphic images of posets algebras. The third author was supported by the following institutions: Israel Science Foundation (postdoctoral positions at Ben Gurion University 2000–2002), The Fields Institute (Toronto 2002–2004), and by The Nato Science Fellowship (University Paris VII, CNRS-UMR 7056, 2004).     

Bimodules associated to vertex operator algebras

Let V be a vertex operator algebra and m, n ≥ 0. We construct an A _n (V)-A _m (V)-bimodule A _n,m (V) which determines the action of V from the level m subspace to level n subspace of an admissible V-module. We show how to use A _n,m (V) to construct naturally admissible V-modules from A _m (V)-modules. We also determine the structure of A _n,m (V) when V is rational. Chongying Dong was supported by NSF grants, China NSF grant 10328102 and a Faculty research grant from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Cuipo Jiang was supported in part by China NSF grant 10571119.     

Sums, products and negations of contexts and complete lattices

In Formal Concept Analysis, one associates with every context its concept lattice , and conversely, with any complete lattice L the standard context L, constituted by the join-irreducible elements as ‘objects’, the meet-irreducible elements as ‘attributes’, and the incidence relation induced by the lattice order. We investigate the effect of the operators and on various (finite or infinite) sum and product constructions. The rules obtained confirm the ‘exponential’ behavior of and the ‘logarithmic’ behavior of with respect to cardinal operations but show a ‘linear’ behavior on ordinal sums. We use these results in order to establish several forms of De Morgan’s law for the lattice-theoretical negation operator, associating with any complete lattice the concept lattice of the complementary standard context. Received February 7, 2001; accepted in final form January 6, 2006.     

Avoidable structures, II: Finite distributive lattices and nicely structured ordered sets

Let be the ordered set of isomorphism types of finite distributive lattices, where the ordering is by embeddability. We characterize the order ideals in that are well-quasi-ordered by embeddability, and thus characterize the members of that belong to at least one infinite anti-chain in . While working on this paper, the second and third authors were supported by US NSF grant DMS-0604065. The second author was also supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, grant #201/05/0002 and by the institutional grant MSM0021620839 financed by MSMT.     

Pseudocomplemented semilattices are finite-to-finite relatively universal

It is shown that the category of directed graphs is isomorphic to a subcategory of the variety S of all pseudocomplemented semilattices which contains all homomorphisms whose images do not lie in the subvariety B of all Boolean pseudocomplemented semilattices. Moreover, the functor exhibiting the isomorphism may be chosen such that each finite directed graph is assigned a finite pseudocomplemented semilattice. That is to say, it is shown that the variety S of all pseudocomplemented semilattices is finite-to-finite B-relatively universal. This illustrates the complexity of the endomorphism monoids of pseudocomplemented semilattices since it follows immediately that, for any monoid M, there exists a proper class of non-isomorphic pseudocomplemented semilattices such that, for each member S, the endomorphisms of S which do not have an image contained in the skeleton of S form a submonoid of the endomorphism monoid of S which is isomorphic to M. Received June 17, 2006; accepted in final form May 8, 2007.     

Value distribution of the difference operator

We investigate the value distribution of difference operators for entire functions, and establish a difference analogue of the Brück conjecture for entire functions of order less than 1. This work was supported by the NNSF of China (No. 10671109).     

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.