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Boolean algebras canonically defined

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Definition

Let 𝟐=({0,1},∧,∨,¬,0,1)\mathbf{2} = (\set{0, 1}, \wedge, \vee, \neg, 0, 1) be the two-element Boolean algebra. A term is an expression built from variables with the binary symbols ∧,∨\wedge, \vee, the unary symbol ¬\neg and the constants 0,10, 1. An equation is a pair of terms, written s=ts = t. Let AA be a set with operations ∧,∨,¬\wedge, \vee, \neg and constants 0,10, 1. An equation holds in AA if both sides take the same value for every assignment of elements of AA to the variables. In the canonical definition, a Boolean algebra is such a set AA in which every equation that holds in 𝟐\mathbf{2} also holds.

Remarks

This class coincides with the class given by the usual axioms of a Boolean algebra. One direction is clear, since the usual axioms hold in 𝟐\mathbf{2}; the other uses the fact that every equation true in 𝟐\mathbf{2} follows from those axioms. In the language of universal algebra, the Boolean algebras form the variety generated by 𝟐\mathbf{2}.

Example: the power set of a set XX, with intersection, union and complement. A subset SS of XX is the same as a function Xβ†’{0,1}X \to \set{0, 1}, and the operations act point by point. So an equation true in 𝟐\mathbf{2} holds at each point of XX, and hence in the power set.

Non-example: the chain 0<m<10 < m < 1 with ∧=min⁑\wedge = \min, ∨=max⁑\vee = \max, Β¬0=1\neg 0 = 1, Β¬m=0\neg m = 0 and Β¬1=0\neg 1 = 0. The equation x∨¬x=1x \vee \neg x = 1 holds in 𝟐\mathbf{2}, but for x=mx = m it gives m∨0=mβ‰ 1m \vee 0 = m \ne 1.

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