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What's the deal with De Morgan algebras and Kleene algebras?

The notion of Boolean algebras, and the corresponding classical propositional logic, is very standard, and it is easy to find information about them (for example, among many other such works, there is ...
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On Applications of Forcing in Domain Theory

An interesting feature of domain theory is to use partial orders in order to provide a mathematical model for the computational approximation in a potentially infinite computational process (e.g. ...
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A "strong" Galois-Tukey connection between orders with suborders

(Background, may be skipped by the knowledgeable reader: A Galois-Tukey connection between two partial orders $(P,\le)$ and $(Q,\le)$ is a pair of maps $\varphi^+:P\to Q$ and $\varphi^-:Q\to P$ ...
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Cantor theorem on orders

It is "a well-known theorem of Cantor", said Sierpinski (circa 1920), that every countable total order can be imbedded in the rationals, and he proceeds to demonstrate that, assuming the continuum ...
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