Quantifiers on distributive lattices

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The author studies (bounded) distributive lattices equipped with (the non-Boolean analogue of) a quantifier in the sense of \textit{P. R. Halmos} [Compos. Math. 12, 217--249 (1956; Zbl 0087.24505)], that is a closure operator \(\nabla\) which preserves finite joins (including 0) and satisfies the identity \(\nabla(a\land \nabla b)=\nabla a\land \nabla b\). He shows that such operators on a given lattice \(L\) correspond to equivalence relations on the Priestley space of \(L\) satisfying suitable conditions. He also considers the variety of signature \((2,2,1,0,0)\) whose members are bounded distributive lattices equipped with a quantifier: he determines the finite subdirectly irreducible algebras in this variety (all of which have the ``simple quantifier which maps everything except 0 to 1) and its lattice of subvarieties (which turns out to be a chain of type \(\omega+1\)).




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