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  1. Algebraic Logic, Where Does It Stand Today?Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2005 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 11 (3):465-516.
    This is a survey article on algebraic logic. It gives a historical background leading up to a modern perspective. Central problems in algebraic logic (like the representation problem) are discussed in connection to other branches of logic, like modal logic, proof theory, model-theoretic forcing, finite combinatorics, and Gödel’s incompleteness results. We focus on cylindric algebras. Relation algebras and polyadic algebras are mostly covered only insofar as they relate to cylindric algebras, and even there we have not told the whole story. (...)
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  • The Class SNr3CAk is Not Closed Under Completions.T. Sayed-Ahmed & B. Samir - 2008 - Logic Journal of the IGPL 16 (5):427-429.
  • Omitting types for algebraizable extensions of first order logic.Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2005 - Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics 15 (4):465-489.
    We prove an Omitting Types Theorem for certain algebraizable extensions of first order logic without equality studied in [SAI 00] and [SAY 04]. This is done by proving a representation theorem preserving given countable sets of infinite meets for certain reducts of ?- dimensional polyadic algebras, the so-called G polyadic algebras (Theorem 5). Here G is a special subsemigroup of (?, ? o) that specifies the signature of the algebras in question. We state and prove an independence result connecting our (...)
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  • Omitting Types in Fragments and Extensions of First Order Logic.Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2021 - Bulletin of the Section of Logic 50 (3):249-287.
    Fix \. Let \ denote first order logic restricted to the first n variables. Using the machinery of algebraic logic, positive and negative results on omitting types are obtained for \ and for infinitary variants and extensions of \.
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  • Neat Embeddings, Omitting Types, and Interpolation: An Overview.Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2003 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 44 (3):157-173.
    We survey various results on the relationship among neat embeddings (a notion special to cylindric algebras), complete representations, omitting types, and amalgamation. A hitherto unpublished application of algebraic logic to omitting types of first-order logic is given.
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  • On Complete Representations and Minimal Completions in Algebraic Logic, Both Positive and Negative Results.Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2021 - Bulletin of the Section of Logic 50 (4):465-511.
    Fix a finite ordinal \ and let \ be an arbitrary ordinal. Let \ denote the class of cylindric algebras of dimension \ and \ denote the class of relation algebras. Let \\) stand for the class of polyadic algebras of dimension \. We reprove that the class \ of completely representable \s, and the class \ of completely representable \s are not elementary, a result of Hirsch and Hodkinson. We extend this result to any variety \ between polyadic algebras (...)
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  • On notions of representability for cylindric‐polyadic algebras, and a solution to the finitizability problem for quantifier logics with equality.Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2015 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 61 (6):418-477.
    We consider countable so‐called rich subsemigroups of ; each such semigroup T gives a variety CPEAT that is axiomatizable by a finite schema of equations taken in a countable subsignature of that of ω‐dimensional cylindric‐polyadic algebras with equality where substitutions are restricted to maps in T. It is shown that for any such T, if and only if is representable as a concrete set algebra of ω‐ary relations. The operations in the signature are set‐theoretically interpreted like in polyadic equality set (...)
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  • Complete Representations and Neat Embeddings.Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2022 - Bulletin of the Section of Logic 51 (3):411-453.
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  • Existence of Certain Finite Relation Algebras Implies Failure of Omitting Types for L n.Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2020 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 61 (4):503-519.
    Fix 2 < n < ω. Let CA n denote the class of cylindric algebras of dimension n, and let RCA n denote the variety of representable CA n ’s. Let L n denote first-order logic restricted to the first n variables. Roughly, CA n, an instance of Boolean algebras with operators, is the algebraic counterpart of the syntax of L n, namely, its proof theory, while RCA n algebraically and geometrically represents the Tarskian semantics of L n. Unlike Boolean (...)
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  • So, what exactly is a qualitative calculus?Armen Inants & Jérôme Euzenat - 2020 - Artificial Intelligence 289 (C):103385.
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  • On canonicity and completions of weakly representable relation algebras.Ian Hodkinson & Szabolcs Mikulás - 2012 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 77 (1):245-262.
    We show that the variety of weakly representable relation algebras is neither canonical nor closed under Monk completions.
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  • Strongly representable atom structures of cylindric algebras.Robin Hirsch & Ian Hodkinson - 2009 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 74 (3):811-828.
    A cylindric algebra atom structure is said to be strongly representable if all atomic cylindric algebras with that atom structure are representable. This is equivalent to saying that the full complex algebra of the atom structure is a representable cylindric algebra. We show that for any finite n >3, the class of all strongly representable n-dimensional cylindric algebra atom structures is not closed under ultraproducts and is therefore not elementary. Our proof is based on the following construction. From an arbitrary (...)
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  • Positive fragments of relevance logic and algebras of binary relations.Robin Hirsch & Szabolcs Mikulás - 2011 - Review of Symbolic Logic 4 (1):81-105.
    We prove that algebras of binary relations whose similarity type includes intersection, union, and one of the residuals of relation composition form a nonfinitely axiomatizable quasivariety and that the equational theory is not finitely based. We apply this result to the problem of the completeness of the positive fragment of relevance logic with respect to binary relations.
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  • Persistence and atomic generation for varieties of Boolean algebras with operators.Robert Goldblatt - 2001 - Studia Logica 68 (2):155-171.
    A variety V of Boolean algebras with operators is singleton-persistent if it contains a complex algebra whenever it contains the subalgebra generated by the singletons. V is atom-canonical if it contains the complex algebra of the atom structure of any of the atomic members of V.This paper explores relationships between these "persistence" properties and questions of whether V is generated by its complex algebras or its atomic members, or is closed under canonical embedding algebras or completions. It also develops a (...)
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  • Omitting types for finite variable fragments and complete representations of algebras.Hajnal Andréka, István Németi & Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2008 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 73 (1):65-89.
    We give a novel application of algebraic logic to first order logic. A new, flexible construction is presented for representable but not completely representable atomic relation and cylindric algebras of dimension n (for finite n > 2) with the additional property that they are one-generated and the set of all n by n atomic matrices forms a cylindric basis. We use this construction to show that the classical Henkin-Orey omitting types theorem fails for the finite variable fragments of first order (...)
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  • Notions of density that imply representability in algebraic logic.Hajnal Andréka, Steven Givant, Szabolcs Mikulás, István Németi & András Simon - 1998 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 91 (2-3):93-190.
    Henkin and Tarski proved that an atomic cylindric algebra in which every atom is a rectangle must be representable . This theorem and its analogues for quasi-polyadic algebras with and without equality are formulated in Henkin, Monk and Tarski [13]. We introduce a natural and more general notion of rectangular density that can be applied to arbitrary cylindric and quasi-polyadic algebras, not just atomic ones. We then show that every rectangularly dense cylindric algebra is representable, and we extend this result (...)
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  • Weakly representable atom structures that are not strongly representable, with an application to first order logic.Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2008 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 54 (3):294-306.
    Letn > 2. A weakly representable relation algebra that is not strongly representable is constructed. It is proved that the set of all n by n basic matrices forms a cylindric basis that is also a weakly but not a strongly representable atom structure. This gives an example of a binary generated atomic representable cylindric algebra with no complete representation. An application to first order logic is given.
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  • Omitting types algebraically and more about amalgamation for modal cylindric algebras.Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2021 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 67 (3):295-312.
    Let α be an arbitrary infinite ordinal, and. In [26] we studied—using algebraic logic—interpolation and amalgamation for an extension of first order logic, call it, with α many variables, using a modal operator of a unimodal logic that contributes to the semantics. Our algebraic apparatus was the class of modal cylindric algebras. Modal cylindric algebras, briefly, are cylindric algebras of dimension α, expanded with unary modalities inheriting their semantics from a unimodal logic such as, or. When modal cylindric algebras based (...)
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  • A simple construction of representable relation algebras with non‐representable completions.Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2009 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 55 (3):237-244.
    We give a simple new construction of representable relation algebras with non-representable completions. Using variations on our construction, we show that the elementary closure of the class of completely representable relation algebras is not finitely axiomatizable.
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  • A simple construction of representable relation algebras with non-representable completions.Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2009 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 55 (3):237-244.
    We give a simple new construction of representable relation algebras with non-representable completions. Using variations on our construction, we show that the elementary closure of the class of completely representable relation algebras is not finitely axiomatizable.
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  • Atom-canonicity in varieties of cylindric algebras with applications to omitting types in multi-modal logic.Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2020 - Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics 30 (3):223-271.
    Fix 2 < n < ω and let C A n denote the class of cylindric algebras of dimension n. Roughly, C A n is the algebraic counterpart of the proof theory of first-order logic restricted to the first n var...
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  • Omitting types for finite variable fragments of first order logic.T. Sayed Ahmed - 2003 - Bulletin of the Section of Logic 32 (3):103-107.
  • Classes of algebras that are not closed under completions.Mohamed Khaled & Tarek Sayed Ahmed - 2009 - Bulletin of the Section of Logic 38 (1/2):29-43.
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