Abstract
AbstractThis paper investigates a quasi‐variety of representable integral commutative residuated lattices axiomatized by the quasi‐identity resulting from the well‐known Wajsberg identity (p → q) → q ≤ (q → p) → p if it is written as a quasi‐identity, i. e., (p → q) → q ≈ 1 ⇒ (q → p) → p ≈ 1. We prove that this quasi‐identity is strictly weaker than the corresponding identity. On the other hand, we show that the resulting quasi‐variety is in fact a variety and provide an axiomatization. The obtained results shed some light on the structure of Archimedean integral commutative residuated chains. Further, they can be applied to various subvarieties of MTL‐algebras, for instance we answer negatively Hájek's question asking whether the variety of ΠMTL‐algebras is generated by its Archimedean members (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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