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Tarski [1975] Exercises §4 1. Find IrB(Sg), where Sg is the subuniverse closure operator on the group of integers Z. 2. 4 applies to the irredundant bases of X. 3. If A is a unary algebra show that |IrB(Sg)| ≤ 1. 4. Give an example of an algebra A such that IrB(Sg) is not convex. §5. Congruences and Quotient Algebras The concepts of congruence, quotient algebra, and homomorphism are all closely related. These will be the subjects of this and the next section. Normal subgroups, which were introduced by Galois at the beginning of the last century, play a fundamental role in defining quotient groups and in the so-called homomorphism and isomorphism theorems which are so basic to the general development of group theory.
5. If α : A → B is an embedding, α(A) denotes the subalgebra of B with universe α(A). A problem of general interest to algebraists may be formulated as follows. Let K be a class of algebras and let K1 be a proper subclass of K. ) Two basic questions arise in the quest for structure theorems. (1) Is every member of K isomorphic to some member of K1 ? (2) Is every member of K embeddable in some member of K1 ? For example, every Boolean algebra is isomorphic to a field of sets (see IV§1), every group is isomorphic to a group of permutations, a finite Abelian group is isomorphic to a direct product of cyclic groups, and a finite distributive lattice can be embedded in a power of the two-element distributive lattice.
4. Let A be a set. Recall that a binary relation r on A is a subset of A2 . If a, b ∈ r we also write arb. If r1 and r2 are binary relations on A then the relational product 18 I Lattices r1 ◦ r2 is the binary relation on A defined by a, b ∈ r1 ◦ r2 iff there is a c ∈ A such that a, c ∈ r1 and c, b ∈ r2 . Inductively one defines r1 ◦ r2 ◦ · · · ◦ rn = (r1 ◦ r2 ◦ · · · ◦ rn−1 ) ◦ rn . The inverse of a binary relation r is given by rˇ = { a, b ∈ A2 : b, a ∈ r}. The diagonal relation ∆A on A is the set { a, a : a ∈ A} and the all relation A2 is denoted by ∇A .