Inclines and incline matrices: A survey. (Q1426318)

An incline \((K,+,\cdot)\) is a semiring with idempotent addition and absorption: \(x + xy = x\), \(y + xy = y\), \(x, y \in K\). Twenty years after the book of \textit{Z.-Q. Cao}, \textit{K. H. Kim} and \textit{F. W. Roush} [Incline algebra and applications (1984; Zbl 0541.06009)], the authors surveyed new results and applications of incline theory. Formally, this theory generalizes four important algebraic structures: Boolean algebra, distributive lattice, max-prod algebra and min-\(S_L\) algebra, where \(S_L(x,y) = \min(x+y,1)\), \(x, y \in [0,1]\) is the Łukasiewicz disjunction. The paper contains new results of the theory, new proofs, new applications and many examples. It is finished by wide list of references.