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A short note on lattices allowing disjunctive reasoning.

Enric Trillas, Eloy Renedo, Claudi Alsina (2006)

Mathware and Soft Computing

This short note shows that the scheme of disjunctive reasoning, a or b, not b : a, does not hold neither in proper ortholattices nor in proper de Morgan algebras. In both cases the scheme, once translated into the inequality b' · (a+b) ≤ a, forces the structure to be a boolean algebra.

A solution to Comfort's question on the countable compactness of powers of a topological group

Artur Hideyuki Tomita (2005)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

In 1990, Comfort asked Question 477 in the survey book “Open Problems in Topology”: Is there, for every (not necessarily infinite) cardinal number α 2 , a topological group G such that G γ is countably compact for all cardinals γ < α, but G α is not countably compact? Hart and van Mill showed in 1991 that α = 2 answers this question affirmatively under M A c o u n t a b l e . Recently, Tomita showed that every finite cardinal answers Comfort’s question in the affirmative, also from M A c o u n t a b l e . However, the question has remained...

A space C(K) where all nontrivial complemented subspaces have big densities

Piotr Koszmider (2005)

Studia Mathematica

Using the method of forcing we prove that consistently there is a Banach space (of continuous functions on a totally disconnected compact Hausdorff space) of density κ bigger than the continuum where all operators are multiplications by a continuous function plus a weakly compact operator and which has no infinite-dimensional complemented subspaces of density continuum or smaller. In particular no separable infinite-dimensional subspace has a complemented superspace of density continuum or smaller,...

A spectral theorem for σ MV-algebras

Sylvia Pulmannová (2005)

Kybernetika

MV-algebras were introduced by Chang, 1958 as algebraic bases for multi-valued logic. MV stands for “multi-valued" and MV algebras have already occupied an important place in the realm of nonstandard (mathematical) logic applied in several fields including cybernetics. In the present paper, using the Loomis–Sikorski theorem for σ -MV-algebras, we prove that, with every element a in a σ -MV algebra M , a spectral measure (i. e. an observable) Λ a : ( [ 0 , 1 ] ) ( M ) can be associated, where ( M ) denotes the Boolean σ -algebra...

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