Free-decomposability in Varieties of Pseudocomplemented Residuated Lattices

In this paper we prove that the free pseudocomplemented residuated lattices are decomposable if and only if they are Stone, i.e., if and only if they satisfy the identity ¬x ∨ ¬¬x = 1. Some applications are given.

Bibliographic Details
Authors: Castaño, Diego Nicolás, Díaz Varela, José Patricio, Torrens, Antoni
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2011
Country:Argentina
Institution:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repository:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/15465
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/15465
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Pseudocomplemented Residuated Lattices
Free Algebras
Decomposability
Stone Algebras
Boolean Elements
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
Description
Summary:In this paper we prove that the free pseudocomplemented residuated lattices are decomposable if and only if they are Stone, i.e., if and only if they satisfy the identity ¬x ∨ ¬¬x = 1. Some applications are given.