The reflectiveness of covering morphisms in algebra and geometry.
We define and compare a selection of congruence properties of quasivarieties, including the relative congruence meet semi-distributivity, RSD(∧), and the weak extension property, WEP. We prove that if 𝒦 ⊆ ℒ ⊆ ℒ' are quasivarieties of finite signature, and ℒ' is finitely generated while 𝒦 ⊨ WEP, then 𝒦 is finitely axiomatizable relative to ℒ. We prove for any quasivariety 𝒦 that 𝒦 ⊨ RSD(∧) iff 𝒦 has pseudo-complemented congruence lattices and 𝒦 ⊨ WEP. Applying these results and other results...
A number of new results that say how to transfer the entailment relation between two different finite generators of a quasi-variety of algebras is presented. As their consequence, a well-known result saying that dualisability of a quasi-variety is independent of the generating algebra is derived. The transferral of endodualisability is also considered and the results are illustrated by examples.
Results saying how to transfer the entailment in certain minimal and maximal ways and how to transfer strong dualisability between two different finite generators of a quasi-variety of algebras are presented. A new proof for a well-known result in the theory of natural dualities which says that strong dualisability of a quasi-variety is independent of the generating algebra is derived.
In an earlier paper, the authors showed that standard semigroups , and play an important role in the classification of weaker versions of alg-universality of semigroup varieties. This paper shows that quasivarieties generated by and are neither relatively alg-universal nor -universal, while there do exist finite semigroups and generating the same semigroup variety as and respectively and the quasivarieties generated by and/or are quasivar-relatively -alg-universal and -universal...