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

There are a lot of questions bundled together here. I will give some references for some of the questions. An early paper on these topics is: Lattices with involution J. A. Kalman Trans. Amer. Math. …
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Is it possible that the number of $\mathcal{T}$-algebras is an arithmetic progression?

Is it possible that the number of $\mathcal{T}$-algebras is an arithmetic progression? Here is a near miss: Let $\mathcal{V}$ be the variety of $\mathbb Z_2$-sets. These may be thought of as algebras …
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Examples of natural algebraic irreflexive relations

Are there any other interesting examples of natural algebraic irreflexive relations? Let $\mathcal{V}$ be an equationally definable class of algebras in a language that has at least two distinct const …
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What is a "general" relation algebra?

There is one natural candidate that leaps to mind, namely the construal of $2^G$ as a relation algebra for each group $G$ $\ldots$ This construction will not answer your question, since each relation …
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Exponentials of truth values

Is there something deeper behind this analogy? If you have a bijection $\beta\colon X\to Y$, then to every operation on $X$ there is a ($\beta$-)conjugate operation on $Y$. Namely, if $f\colon X^k\to …
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Additive, multiplicative, and Dedekind infiniteness in ${\sf (ZF)}$

But a theorem of Sageev says that $\ldots$ I don't want to alter Andreas's answer, but I want to add a reference to one of the results he mentions. Sageev, Gershon An independence result concerning th …
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Posets of equational theories of "bad quotients"

Let $\mathbb{R}=(\{\textrm{real numbers}\};0,1,+,\times)$. Is there an equivalence relation $E$ on $\mathbb{R}$ such that $\mathbb{P}_\mathbb{R}(E)$ is not upwards-directed? I will assume that the ord …
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Classes of algebras axiomatizable by special formulas; and free objects

Question 1: Given a class of algebras $\mathcal{K}$, what conditions on $\mathcal{K}$ imply that it can be axiomatized by a class of $\mathcal{L}$-formulas of a special type (such as an identity or qu …
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Two notions of generalized quotient/substructure

Let me copy Definition 4.1 of Libor Barto, Jakub Oprsal, Michael Pinsker The wonderland of reflections Israel Journal of Mathematics 223 (2018), 363-398 Defn. 4.1 Let $\mathbf{A}$ be an algebra with s …
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Invariant theory in universal algebra

Refinement of Questions 1 and 2: Is there any general result in Universal algebra (or Model theory) that is relevant for the purposes of these questions? I think that this is too general of a question …
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Lattices of clones: is 4 worse than 3?

This is not an answer, but a long comment. I want to post references that are relevant to a question raised in the comments, namely (Wojowu) Is it possible that $\mathscr{C}_3$ has some weak universa …
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How large must algebras with a given congruence lattice be?

What do we know about the growth rate of $C(n)$? We know the exact value of $C(n)$ if, in its definition, we restrict to the class of distributive lattices. Otherwise we only have partial results. Let …
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Equational theories determined by "identities without variables"

This question was edited on March 12, 2023 and I was asked to comment on the edited form. Let me copy the essential part of the new question: I believe $\ldots$ that a variety $\mathscr V$ is of the a …
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Example of trickiness of finite lattice representation problem?

$M_4$, the modular lattice of height two with four atoms is an example. $M_4$ arises as the subgroup lattice of the symmetric group on $3$ letters, hence it arises as the congruence lattice of a regul …
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Is the equational theory of this "orthocentrish" algebra finitely based?

This algebra is finitely based. In fact, if you choose any bijection from $\{a,b,c,d\}$ to $\mathbb Z_2\times \mathbb Z_2$, then you can transport the operation $F(x,y,z)$ to $\mathbb Z_2\times \mathb …
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