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Flocks in universal and Boolean algebras

Gabriele Ricci (2010)

Discussiones Mathematicae - General Algebra and Applications

We propose the notion of flocks, which formerly were introduced only in based algebras, for any universal algebra. This generalization keeps the main properties we know from vector spaces, e.g. a closure system that extends the subalgebra one. It comes from the idempotent elementary functions, we call "interpolators", that in case of vector spaces merely are linear functions with normalized coefficients. The main example, we consider outside vector spaces, concerns Boolean algebras,...

Forcing for hL and hd

Andrzej Rosłanowski, Saharon Shelah (2001)

Colloquium Mathematicae

The present paper addresses the problem of attainment of the supremums in various equivalent definitions of the hereditary density hd and hereditary Lindelöf degree hL of Boolean algebras. We partially answer two problems of J. Donald Monk [13, Problems 50, 54], showing consistency of different attainment behaviour and proving that (for the variants considered) this is the best result we can expect.

Generalized free products

J. D. Monk (2001)

Colloquium Mathematicae

A subalgebra B of the direct product i I A i of Boolean algebras is finitely closed if it contains along with any element f any other member of the product differing at most at finitely many places from f. Given such a B, let B* be the set of all members of B which are nonzero at each coordinate. The generalized free product corresponding to B is the subalgebra of the regular open algebra with the poset topology on B* generated by the natural basic open sets. Properties of this product are developed....

Historic forcing for Depth

Andrzej Rosłanowski, Saharon Shelah (2001)

Colloquium Mathematicae

We show that, consistently, for some regular cardinals θ <λ, there exists a Boolean algebra 𝔹 such that |𝔹| = λ⁺ and for every subalgebra 𝔹'⊆ 𝔹 of size λ⁺ we have Depth(𝔹') = θ.

Horizontal sums of basic algebras

Ivan Chajda (2009)

Discussiones Mathematicae - General Algebra and Applications

The variety of basic algebras is closed under formation of horizontal sums. We characterize when a given basic algebra is a horizontal sum of chains, MV-algebras or Boolean algebras.

Ideal independence, free sequences, and the ultrafilter number

Kevin Selker (2015)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

We make use of a forcing technique for extending Boolean algebras. The same type of forcing was employed in Baumgartner J.E., Komjáth P., Boolean algebras in which every chain and antichain is countable, Fund. Math. 111 (1981), 125–133, Koszmider P., Forcing minimal extensions of Boolean algebras, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 351 (1999), no. 8, 3073–3117, and elsewhere. Using and modifying a lemma of Koszmider, and using CH, we obtain an atomless BA, A such that 𝔣 ( A ) = s mm ( A ) < 𝔲 ( A ) , answering questions raised by Monk...

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