{"title":"Decidable quasivarieties of p-algebras","authors":"Tomasz Kowalski, Katarzyna Słomczyńska","doi":"10.1002/malq.202300064","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>We show that for quasivarieties of p-algebras the properties of (i) having decidable first-order theory and (ii) having decidable first-order theory of the finite members, coincide. The only two quasivarieties with these properties are the trivial variety and the variety of Boolean algebras. This contrasts sharply, even for varieties, with the situation in Heyting algebras where decidable varieties do not coincide with finitely decidable ones.</p>","PeriodicalId":49864,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Logic Quarterly","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mathematical Logic Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/malq.202300064","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"LOGIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We show that for quasivarieties of p-algebras the properties of (i) having decidable first-order theory and (ii) having decidable first-order theory of the finite members, coincide. The only two quasivarieties with these properties are the trivial variety and the variety of Boolean algebras. This contrasts sharply, even for varieties, with the situation in Heyting algebras where decidable varieties do not coincide with finitely decidable ones.
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Mathematical Logic Quarterly publishes original contributions on mathematical logic and foundations of mathematics and related areas, such as general logic, model theory, recursion theory, set theory, proof theory and constructive mathematics, algebraic logic, nonstandard models, and logical aspects of theoretical computer science.