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In this paper we show that the subvarieties of BL, the variety of BL-algebras, generated by single BL-chains on [0, 1], determined by continous t-norms, are finitely axiomatizable. An algorithm to check the subsethood relation between these subvarieties is provided, as well as another procedure to effectively find the equations of each subvariety. From a logical point of view, the latter corresponds to find the axiomatization of every residuated many-valued calculus defined by a continuous t-norm and its residuum. Actually, the paper proves the results for a more general class than t-norm BL-chains, the so-called regular BL-chains.
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Esteva, F., Godo, L. & Montagna, F. Equational Characterization of the Subvarieties of BL Generated by t-norm Algebras. Studia Logica 76, 161–200 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:STUD.0000032084.12744.e3
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