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Title

Subdirect decompositions of algebras from 2-clone extensions of varieties

Authors 1

Affiliations

  1. Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Kopernika 18, 51-617 Wrocław, Poland

Abstract

Let τ:F → ℕ be a type of algebras, where F is a set of fundamental operation symbols and ℕ is the set of nonnegative integers. We assume that |F|≥2 and 0 ∉ (F). For a term φ of type τ we denote by F(φ) the set of fundamental operation symbols from F occurring in φ. An identity φ ≉ ψ of type τ is called clone compatible if φ and ψ are the same variable or F(φ)=F(ψ)≠. For a variety V of type τ we denote by Vc,2 the variety of type τ defined by all identities φ ≉ ψ from Id(V) which are either clone compatible or |F(φ)|, |F(ψ)|≥2. Under some assumption on terms (condition (0.iii)) we show that an algebra {>A} belongs to Vc,2 iff it is isomorphic to a subdirect product of an algebra from V and of some other algebras of very simple structure. This result is applied to finding subdirectly irreducible algebras in Vc,2 where V is the variety of distributive lattices or the variety of Boolean algebras.

Keywords

lattice, varieties, subdirectly irreducible algebra, Boolean algebra, clone extension of a variety, subdirect product

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Pages:
189-199
Main language of publication
English
Received
1997-05-28
Published
1998
Exact and natural sciences