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The lattice of varieties of representable relation algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Hajnal Andréka ,
Steven Givant  and
István Németi
Steven Givant
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Mills College, Oakland, California 94613, E-mail: givant@mills.edu
István Németi
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 127, Budapest V, H-1364Hungary, E-mail: hl469nem@ella.hu
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Abstract

We shall show that certain natural and interesting intervals in the lattice of varieties of representable relation algebras embed the lattice of all subsets of the natural numbers, and therefore must have a very complicated lattice-theoretic structure.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , June 1994 , pp. 631 - 661
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1994

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