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Tolerance intersection properties and subalgebras of squares

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2014

Alessandro Andretta
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Keith Kearnes
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Boulder
Domenico Zambella
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
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Abstract. Tolerance identities can be used [4] in order to provide a fairly simple proof of a classical result by R. Freese and B. Jönsson [7] asserting that every congruence modular variety is in fact Arguesian. The main advantage of the approach using tolerances is that stronger identities can be obtained: the higher Arguesian identities introduced by M. Haiman [12].

Discouragingly enough, however, the approach using tolerances does not appear to give a proof for the local version of Freese and J önsson's Theorem: If every subalgebra of A × A is congruence modular then A is Arguesian.

A common generalization of the results mentioned in the above two paragraphs would furnish the following (a conjecture, so far): If every subalgebra of A × A is congruence modular then A satisfies all Haiman's higher Arguesian identities.

Towards a possible solution of the above conjecture, we introduce a new tolerance identity, called wTIP, and show that it holds in the algebra A provided that every subalgebra of A × A is congruence modular. Moreover, wTIP is equivalent to the Shifting Principle introduced by H. P. Gumm. The known methods using tolerance identities apply, if we restrict ourselves to a particular class of lattice terms.

From congruence varieties to tolerance identities. In the present section we briefly describe how two seemingly unrelated notions used in universal algebra came in touch in an unexpected way. We first recall some basic notions and terminology. Introductory textbooks to universal algebra are, among others, [1, 9, 26]. For a reader not familiar with universal algebra, a preliminary reading of the survey [16] would probably be of great help.

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Logic Colloquium 2004 , pp. 109 - 122
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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