ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Congruences on pseudocomplemented semilattices
Authors 1
Affiliations
- College of Business and Management, Technical University, Technicka 2, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic
Abstract
It is known that congruence lattices of pseudocomplemented semilattices are pseudocomplemented [4]. Many interesting properties of congruences on pseudocomplemented semilattices were described by Sankappanavar in [4], [5], [6]. Except for other results he described congruence distributive pseudocomplemented semilattices [6] and he characterized pseudocomplemented semilattices whose congruence lattices are Stone, i.e. belong to the variety B₁ [5]. In this paper we give a partial solution to a more general question: Under what condition on a pseudocomplemented semilattice its congruence lattice is element of the variety Bₙ (n ≥ 2)? In the last section we widen the Sankappanavar's result to obtain the description of pseudocomplemented semilattices with relative Stone congruence lattices. A partial solution of the description of pseudocomplemented semilattices with relative (Lₙ)-congruence lattices (n ≥ 2) is also given.
Keywords
pseudocomplemented semilattice, congruence lattice, p-algebra, Stone algebra, (relative) (Lₙ)-lattice
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