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VARIETIES OF DE MORGAN MONOIDS: COVERS OF ATOMS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2019

T. MORASCHINI ,
J. G. RAFTERY  and
J. J. WANNENBURG
T. MORASCHINI*
Affiliation:
Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
J. G. RAFTERY*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria
J. J. WANNENBURG*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria; DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CoE-MaSS)
*
*INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC POD VODÁRENSKOU VĚŽÍ 2, 182 07 PRAGUE 8, CZECH REPUBLIC E-mail: moraschini@cs.cas.cz
†DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, PRIVATE BAG X20, HATFIELD PRETORIA 0028, SOUTH AFRICA E-mail: james.raftery@up.ac.za
‡DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, PRIVATE BAG X20, HATFIELD PRETORIA 0028, AND DST-NRF CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL SCIENCES (COE-MASS) SOUTH AFRICA E-mail: jamie.wannenburg@up.ac.za
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Abstract

The variety DMM of De Morgan monoids has just four minimal subvarieties. The join-irreducible covers of these atoms in the subvariety lattice of DMM are investigated. One of the two atoms consisting of idempotent algebras has no such cover; the other has just one. The remaining two atoms lack nontrivial idempotent members. They are generated, respectively, by 4-element De Morgan monoids C4 and D4, where C4 is the only nontrivial 0-generated algebra onto which finitely subdirectly irreducible De Morgan monoids may be mapped by noninjective homomorphisms. The homomorphic preimages of C4 within DMM (together with the trivial De Morgan monoids) constitute a proper quasivariety, which is shown to have a largest subvariety U. The covers of the variety (C4) within U are revealed here. There are just ten of them (all finitely generated). In exactly six of these ten varieties, all nontrivial members have C4 as a retract. In the varietal join of those six classes, every subquasivariety is a variety—in fact, every finite subdirectly irreducible algebra is projective. Beyond U, all covers of (C4) [or of (D4)] within DMM are discriminator varieties. Of these, we identify infinitely many that are finitely generated, and some that are not. We also prove that there are just 68 minimal quasivarieties of De Morgan monoids.

Keywords

Primary 03B4706D9906F05Secondary 03G2506D30De Morgan monoidSugihara monoidDunn monoidresiduated latticerelevance logic
Type
Research Article
Information
The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 2020 , pp. 338 - 374
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2019 

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