From rectangular bands to k-primal algebras

DOI10.1007/S002330010023MaRDI QIDQ5953368zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brian A. Davey, Bradley J. Knox

Publication date 11 March 2002

Published in Semigroup Forum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s002330010023

zbMATH Keywords

\(k\)-primal algebraBoolean algebracategorical equivalence of quasivarietiesindependent algebrasnatural dualityprimal algebrarectangular band

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boolean algebras with additional operations (diagonalizable algebras, etc.) (06E25) Operations and polynomials in algebraic structures, primal algebras (08A40) Categories of algebras (08C05) Quasivarieties (08C15)

Review text

The authors begin by observing that every finite rectangular band is naturally dualisable in the sense of \textit{D. M. Clark} and \textit{B. A. Davey}'s book [Natural dualities for the working algebraists, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press (1998; Zbl 0910.08001)]. The corresponding duality arises via an algebra which is a product of two independent Boolean algebras. Departing from this observation, the authors define a \(k\)-primal algebra as a product of \(k\) independent primal algebras and develop a strong duality for the quasivariety \(\mathcal A\) generated by a \(k\)-primal algebra. As an application, they show that a quasivariety \(\mathcal B\) is equivalent as a category to \(\mathcal A\) if and only is \(\mathcal B\) is also generated by a \(k\)-primal algebra. The duality and the categorical equivalence results generalize the well-known results of \textit{T.-K. Hu} [Math. Z. 110, 180-198 (1969; Zbl 0177.02602); Algebra Univers. 1, 152-154 (1971; Zbl 0236.08005)] for the primal algebra case.

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