Quad Rings, Quad Algebras and a 4-valued Logic
摘要
In the literature many generalizations of Boolean algebras exist viz. Ockham algebras, De Morgan algebras, p-algebras, Heyting algebras etc. There has been investigations into algebras in which two or more of such negations occur simultaneously. This paper investigates the class of algebras called quad algebras which encompasses both the Boolean and De Morgan algebras. Due to the presence of Boolean negation such algebras naturally possess a ring structure. In fact these algebras turn out to be equivalent with the class of rings where every element satisfies the polynomial equation