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Keywords:
Lawvere theory; equivalence between varieties; Hu's theorem; primal algebra; Post algebras
Summary:
It is shown how Lawvere's one-to-one translation between Birkhoff's description of varieties and the categorical one (see [6]) turns Hu's theorem on varieties generated by a primal algebra (see [4], [5]) into a simple reformulation of the classical representation theorem of finite Boolean algebras as powerset algebras.
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