Tangled Closure Algebras

Autor: Robert Goldblatt, Ian Hodkinson
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Categories and General Algebraic Structures with Applications, Vol 7, Iss Special Issue on the Occasion of Banaschewski's 90th Birthday (II), Pp 9-31 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2345-5853
2345-5861
Popis: The tangled closure of a collection of subsets of a topological space is the largest subset in which each member of the collection is dense. This operation models a logical `tangle modality' connective, of significance in finite model theory. Here we study an abstract equational algebraic formulation of the operation which generalises the McKinsey-Tarski theory of closure algebras. We show that any dissectable tangled closure algebra, such as the algebra of subsets of any metric space without isolated points, contains copies of every finite tangled closure algebra. We then exhibit an example of a tangled closure algebra that cannot be embedded into any complete tangled closure algebra, so it has no MacNeille completion and no spatial representation.
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