On EMV-Semirings

The paper deals with an algebraic extension of MV-semirings based on the definition of generalized Boolean algebras. We propose a semiring-theoretic approach to EMV-algebras based on the connections between such algebras and idempotent semirings. We introduce a new algebraic structure, not necessarily with a top element, which is called an EMV-semiring and we get some examples and basic properties of EMV-semiring. We show that every EMV-semiring is an EMV-algebra and every EMV-semiring contains an MV-semiring and an MV-algebra. Then, we study EMV-semiring as a lattice and prove that any EMV-semiring is a distributive lattice. Moreover, we define an EMV-semiring homomorphism and show that the categories of EMV-semirings and the category of EMV-algebras are isomorphic. We also define the concepts of GI-simple and DLO-semiring and prove that every EMV-semiring is a GI-simple and a DLO-semiring. Finally, we propose a representation for EMV-semirings, which proves that any EMV-semiring is either an MV-semiring or can be embedded into an MV-semiring as a maximal ideal.

Wreath Product Action on Generalized Boolean Algebras

Let $G$ be a finite group acting on the finite set $X$ such that the corresponding (complex) permutation representation is multiplicity free. There is a natural rank and order preserving action of the wreath product $G\sim S_n$ on the generalized Boolean algebra $B_X(n)$. We explicitly block diagonalize the commutant of this action.

Torsion classes of generalized Boolean algebras

Torsion classes and radical classes of lattice ordered groups have been investigated in several papers. The notions of torsion class and of radical class of generalized Boolean algebras are defined analogously. We denote by T g and R g the collections of all torsion classes or of all radical classes of generalized Boolean algebras, respectively. Both T g and R g are partially ordered by the class-theoretical inclusion. We deal with the relation between these partially ordered collection; as a consequence, we obtain that T g is a Brouwerian lattice. W. C. Holland proved that each variety of lattice ordered groups is a torsion class. We show that an analogous result is valid for generalized Boolean algebras.

A Group-Theoretic Setting for Some Intersecting Sperner Families

Using a group-theoretic approach, we derive some Erdős-Ko-Rado-type results for certain Sperner families of chains and antichains in partial orders. In particular, we establish Bollobás-type inequalities for arbitrary Sperner families of intersecting affine subspaces, and special intersecting Sperner families in generalized Boolean algebras.