Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2009
In an earlier paper, the author has obtained a solution [8] to Birkhoff's problem No. 105 [1]: Is there a common abstraction which includes Boolean algebras (Rings) and lattice ordered groups as special cases? The solution actually turns out to be the direct product of a Boolean ring and a lattice ordered group. Birkhoff's problem has also been solved by Swamy, Wyler, and Nakano by presenting respectively i) Dually Residuated Lattice Ordered Semigroups (D.R.1. semigroups) [2, 3, 4, 5], ii) Clans [6], and iii) Multirings [7].