Free-decomposability in varieties of pseudocomplemented residuated lattices (Q763308)

A pseudocomplemented residuated lattice is a bounded residuated lattice \(\mathbf A=\langle A, \ast, \rightarrow,\vee, \wedge, \mathbf 0, \mathbf 1\rangle\) satisfying the equation: \(x \wedge \neg x= \mathbf 0\), where \(\neg x:=x \rightarrow \mathbf 0\), for all \(x \in A\). A Stone residuated lattice is a pseudocomplemented residuated lattice satisfying the equation \(\neg x \vee \neg \neg x = \mathbf 1\). The authors mainly prove that ``a free algebra in a variety of pseudocomplemented residuated lattices is decomposable if and only if it is a Stone residuated lattice.'' Then they apply the results obtained for free-decomposability to subvarieties of Heyting algebras and present some examples of distributive pseudocomplemented residuated lattices which are not Stone residuated lattices. The paper is clear, well written.