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Can the set of parafinite congruences be descriptive-set-theoretically complicated?
Fix an algebra $\mathfrak{A}$ with underlying set $\mathbb{N}$ and finite language $\Sigma$. The set of congruences on $\mathfrak{A}$ is a closed subset $C_\mathfrak{A}$ of $2^\mathbb{N}$ (with the ...
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Congruences that aren't "finite from above," take 2: semigroups
This is a hopefully less trivial version of this question. Briefly, say that a congruence is parafinite if it is the largest congruence contained in some equivalence relation with finitely many ...
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Congruences that aren't "finite from above"
Let $\mathfrak{A}=(A;...)$ be an algebra in the sense of universal algebra. Say that a congruence $\sim$ on $\mathfrak{A}$ is parafinite iff there is an equivalence relation $E\subseteq A^2$ with ...
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Posets of equational theories of "bad quotients"
This is a follow-up to an older question of mine:
Suppose $\mathfrak{A}=(A;...)$ is an algebra (in the sense of universal algebra) and $E$ is an equivalence relation - not necessarily a congruence - ...
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Sizes of linearly ordered subalgebras of powers
On the grounds that I'm currently teaching a linear algebra class and I enjoy making my students furious, let a linear algebra be an algebra $\mathcal{A}$ in the sense of universal algebra equipped ...
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Choosing a net of projections from a given collection
Let $\mathcal M$ be a von Neumann algebra. Let $S$ be a nonempty set. Consider $\Omega$ to be the collection of all finite subsets of $S$. Suppose for all $\omega\in\Omega$ we have $I_\omega$ a ...
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Is there an ordered algebra analogue of the HSP theorem?
For an algebraic signature (= set of function symbols) $\Sigma$, say that an ordered $\Sigma$-algebra is a pair $\mathfrak{A}=(\mathcal{A};\le)$ where $\mathcal{A}$ is a $\Sigma$-algebra in the sense ...
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Can one define in ZFC a directed system of embeddings on the class of all linear orders realizing the surreal line as the direct limit?
Consider the surreal line $\langle\newcommand\No{\text{No}}\No,\leq\rangle$, in its order structure only. This is a proper class linear order, which is universal for all set-sized linear orders, as ...
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Is the theory of a partial order bi-interpretable with the theory of a pre-order?
A partial order relation $\leq$ on a set $A$ is a binary relation that is reflexive, transitive, and antisymmetric.
A preorder relation $\unlhd$ (also sometimes known as a quasi order or pseudo order) ...
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Poset of automorphism groups of variants of a structure
Say that two structures $\mathfrak{A},\mathfrak{B}$ in possibly different finite languages are parametrically equivalent - and write "$\mathfrak{A}\approx\mathfrak{B}$" - iff they have the ...
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What is the theory of the random poset?
$\DeclareMathOperator\Th{Th}$The random poset is the Fraisse limit of the class of finite posets, just like the random graph is the Fraisse limit of the class of finite graphs? That is, the random ...
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Self-embeddings of uncountable total orders, 2
Let $S = (\Omega,\leq)$ be an uncountable dense total order, such that for all positive integers $m$ and all finite ordered sequences $a_1 < a_2 < \ldots < a_m$ and $b_1 < b_2 < \ldots &...
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On certain order-automorphisms of the rationals
Consider the rationals $\mathbb{Q}$ with the usual order $\leq$. Now let $A$ be a subset of $\mathbb{Q}$, such that foreseen with the induced order $\leq$, $(A,\leq)$ is a dense linear order.
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Functoriality of indiscernible sequences
Let $T$ be a first order theory of, say, some type of combinatorial geometries which contain indiscernible sequences of points. Let $(\Gamma,\mathcal{O})$ be a model of $T$, where $\Gamma$ is the ...
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Self-additive posets
We say that a partially ordered set $(P,<)$ is self-additive if the two natural embeddings of $P$ in $P\oplus P$ (the linear sum of $P$ and itself) are elementary.
We have the following.
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