Profinite completions and canonical extensions of Heyting algebras (Q862977)

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    Profinite completions and canonical extensions of Heyting algebras
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      Profinite completions and canonical extensions of Heyting algebras (English)
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      25 January 2007
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      Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for the profinite completion of a Heyting algebra to coincide with its canonical extension. This provides a new criterion for a variety of Heyting algebras to be finitely generated, and a new proof of the fact that every finitely generated variety of Heyting algebras is canonical.
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      profinite completion
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      canonical extension
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      duality theory
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      Heyting algebra
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