Abstract
We provide a generalization of Mundici's equivalence between unital Abelian lattice-ordered groups and MV-algebras: the category of unital commutative lattice-ordered monoids is equivalent to the category of MV-monoidal algebras. Roughly speaking, unital commutative lattice-ordered monoids are unital Abelian lattice-ordered groups without the unary operation x ↦-x. The primitive operations are +, ∨, ∧, 0, 1, -1. A prime example of these structures is ℝ, with the obvious interpretation of the operations. Analogously, MV-monoidal algebras are MV-algebras without the negation x ↦¬x. The primitive operations are ⊕, ⊙, ∨, ∧, 0, 1. A motivating example of MV-monoidal algebra is the negation-free reduct of the standard MV-algebra [0,1] ⊆ ℝ. We obtain the original Mundici's equivalence as a corollary of our main result.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 45 |
Number of pages | 42 |
Journal | Algebra Universalis |
Volume | 82 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 25 Jun 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding:Open access funding provided by Universitá degli Studi di Salerno within the CRUI-CARE Agreement.
Keywords
- Lattice-ordered monoids
- Lattice-ordered groups
- Categorical equivalence
- MV-algebras
- Compact ordered spaces
- Continuous order-preserving functions