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Blow up and Blur constructions in Algebraic Logic
The idea in the title is to blow up a finite structure, replacing each
'colour or atom' by infinitely many, using blurs to represent the resulting
term algebra, but the blurs are not enough to blur the structure of the finite
structure in the complex algebra. Then, the latter cannot be representable due
to a {finite- infinite} contradiction. This structure can be a finite clique in
a graph or a finite relation algebra or a finite cylindric algebra. This theme
gives examples of weakly representable atom structures that are not strongly
representable. Many constructions existing in the literature are placed in a
rigorous way in such a framework, properly defined.
This is the essence too of construction of Monk like-algebras, one constructs
graphs with finite colouring (finitely many blurs), converging to one with
infinitely many, so that the original algebra is also blurred at the complex
algebra level, and the term algebra is completey representable, yielding a
representation of its completion the complex algebra.
A reverse of this process exists in the literature, it builds algebras with
infinite blurs converging to one with finite blurs. This idea due to Hirsch and
Hodkinson, uses probabilistic methods of Erdos to construct a sequence of
graphs with infinite chromatic number one that is 2 colourable. This
construction, which works for both relation and cylindric algebras, further
shows that the class of strongly representable atom structures is not
elementary.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1304.114
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