Checking admissibility using natural dualities

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DOI10.1145/3275115zbMATH Open1407.03010arXiv1801.02046OpenAlexW2963632537MaRDI QIDQ4617979FDOQ4617979


Authors: Benjamin Freisberg, George Metcalfe, Leonardo Manuel Cabrer, Hilary A. Priestley Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 7 February 2019

Published in: ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper presents a new method for obtaining small algebras to check the admissibility-equivalently, validity in free algebras-of quasi-identities in a finitely generated quasivariety. Unlike a previous algebraic approach of Metcalfe and Rothlisberger that is feasible only when the relevant free algebra is not too large, this method exploits natural dualities for quasivarieties to work with structures of smaller cardinality and surjective rather than injective morphisms. A number of case studies are described here that could not be be solved using the algebraic approach, including (quasi)varieties of MS-algebras, double Stone algebras, and involutive Stone algebras.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02046




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