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On canonicity and completions of weakly representable relation algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Ian Hodkinson  and
Szabolcs Mikulás
Ian Hodkinson
Affiliation:
Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK, URL: www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~imh/
Szabolcs Mikulás
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science And Information Systems, Birkbeck, University of London, London, WC1E 7HX, UK, URL: www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~szabolcs/
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Abstract

We show that the variety of weakly representable relation algebras is neither canonical nor closed under Monk completions.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 77 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 245 - 262
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2012

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