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Equational Classes of Distributive Pseudo-Complemented Lattices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

K. B. Lee*
Affiliation:
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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A pseudo-complemented lattice is a lattice L with zero such that for every aL there exists a* ∊ L such that, for all xL, ax = 0 if and only if xa*. a* is called a pseudo-complement of a. It is clear that for each element a of a pseudo-complemented lattice L, a* is uniquely determined by a. Thus * can be regarded as a unary operation on L. Moreover, each pseudo-complemented lattice contains the unit, namely 0*. It follows that every pseudo-complemented lattice L can be regarded as an algebra (L; (∧, ∨, *, 0, 1)) of type (2, 2, 1, 0, 0). In this paper, we consider only distributive pseudo-complemented lattices. For simplicity, we call such a lattice a p-algebra.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

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