Atlas home || Conferences | Abstracts | about Atlas

International Conference on Modern Algebra in conjunction with the 17th annual Shanks Lectures
May 21-24, 2002
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA

Organizers
Jonathan Farley, Ralph Freese, Matthew Gould, Peter Jipsen, George McNulty, Miklos Maroti, Alexander Ol'shanskii, Steven Tschantz, Constantine Tsinakis, Matthew Valeriote

View Abstracts
Conference Homepage

Nonrepresentable relation algebras generated by functional elements
by
Roger D. Maddux
Iowa State University

There are nonrepresentable relation algebras generated by their functional elements. This solves a problem posed many years ago. The number of generating functional elements can be as low as 2. An open problem is to determine whether there is a nonrepresentable relation algebra generated by a single functional element.

Date received: January 1, 2002

Copyright © 2002 by the author(s). The author(s) of this document and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Atlas Conferences Inc. Document # caig-44.