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Here are some of my latest thoughts on order-theory… such as thread-first and loop (•̀ᴗ•́)و


Discovering Heyting Algebra

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We attempt to motivate the structure of a Heyting Algebra by considering ‘inverse problems’.

For example,

What if we decided, for security, to change our protocol from using addition to using minimum. That is, we encode our message \(m\) as \(z = x ↓ m\). Since minimum is not invertible, we decide to send our encoded messages with a ‘context’ \(c\) as a pair \((z, c)\). From this pair, a unique number \(m′\) can be extracted, which is not necessarily the original \(m\). Read on, and perhaps you'll figure out which messages can be communicated 😉

This exploration demonstrates that relative pseudo-complements

In some sense, the pseudo-complement is the “best approximate inverse” to forming meets, minima, intersections.

Along the way we develop a number of the theorems describing the relationships between different structural components of Heyting Algebras; most notably the internalisation of much of its own structure.

The article aims to be self-contained, however it may be helpful to look at this lattice cheat sheet (•̀ᴗ•́)و


Thanks for reading everything! 😁 Bye! 👋

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