A note on derivations on basic algebras (Q521631)

Basic algebras were recently introduced as a common generalization of both MV-algebras and orthomodular lattices. A basic algebra is an algebra \((A;\oplus,\neg,0)\) of type \((2,1,0)\). We recall that a \textit{derivation} on an arbitrary basic algebra \(A\) is a mapping \(d:A \to A\) such that (i) \(d(x\oplus y)=d(x)\oplus d(y)\), and (ii) \(d(x\odot y)=(d(x)\odot y)\oplus (x\odot d(y))\). Any such derivation is monotone, \(d(0)=0\), \(d(x)\leq x\), \(d(\neg d(1)\odot x)=0\). One of the main results, Theorem 10, says that every derivation is a homomorphism from the basic algebra \(A\) onto the interval algebra \([0,d(1)]\). Due to Theorem 16, in any lattice effect algebra \(A\) there is a one-to-one correspondence between the derivations on \(A\) and the direct product decompositions \(A \cong A_1\times A_2\), where \(A_1\) is an OML.