Barycentric algebras and beyond (Q2418559)

In this paper, the concept of threshold barycentric algebras is extended to threshold affine spaces. According to the authors, this paper ``is part of a series that is devoted to extensions of the concept of barycentric algebras''. It is known that threshold algebras have many important properties, and provide a framework for a wide variety of algebras, such as barycentric algebras and commutative binary modes. The authors extend the concept of a threshold algebra to a yet broader spectrum of algebras, embracing affine spaces over subfields \(F\) of the field \(R\). In threshold affine spaces, according to the authors, the basic set of binary operations is replaced by a set of operations to be trivial left or right projections. As a natural consequence, many results concerning threshold barycentric algebras also hold for threshold affine spaces. In particular, the authors show that if the closed unit interval \(I\) of \(F\) is a proper subset of \(J\) (\(J\) is a symmetrical interval containing \(\frac{1}{2}\)), then the operations from \(J\) generate all the affine space operations. This paper is organized as follows. Section 1, Introduction. Section 2, Modes, affine spaces and barycentric algebras. Section 3, Affine spaces and barycentric operations. Section 4, Binary reducts of affine \(F\)-spaces. Section 5, Threshold algebras. These algebras were introduced by the authors in [Algebra Univers. 79, No. 2, Paper No. 22, 20 p. (2018; Zbl 1400.08002)]. Section 6, Varieties of threshold algebras.