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On Polynomial Algebras and Free Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

George Grätzer*
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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It is well known that given the polynomial algebra (for definitions, see §2), an algebra of type τ, and a sequence a of elements of , one can define a congruence relation θa of such that the factor algebra is isomorphic to the subalgebra of generated by a, and the isomorphism is given in a very simple way.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1968

Footnotes

Research supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number GP-4221. Theorem 1 was announced in Notices Amer. Math. Soc, 12 (1965), 336.

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