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Complete representations in algebraic logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Robin Hirsch  and
Ian Hodkinson
Robin Hirsch
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University College, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT, U.K., E-mail: R.Hirsch@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Ian Hodkinson
Affiliation:
Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, U.K., E-mail: imh@doc.ic.ac.uk
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Abstract

A boolean algebra is shown to be completely representable if and only if it is atomic, whereas it is shown that neither the class of completely representable relation algebras nor the class of completely representable cylindric algebras of any fixed dimension (at least 3) are elementary.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 816 - 847
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1997

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