A Functional Approach to the Theory of Prime Implicants
Publications de l'Institut Mathématique, _N_S_40 (1986) no. 54, p. 23
Cet article a éte moissonné depuis la source eLibrary of Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The theory of prime implicants has been developed independently to
simplify truth-functions (Quine, 1952) and to solve inferential problems in
propositional logic (Blake, 1937). The object of this paper is to
generalize Blake's approach, which unlike Quine's is little known, in the
setting of function theory. We begin by developing an axiomatic theory of
prime implicants within the general framework of finite join semilattices;
Blake's concepts of syllogistic representation and canonical form are
defined naturally within this framework. We next specialize this axiomatic
theory to simple Boolean functions (equivalently, propositional functions)
to obtain the classical theory of prime implicants. Finally, we derive the
theory of prime implicants for general Boolean functions, together with a
few results specific to such functions.
Classification :
06E30 03605 94C10
@article{PIM_1986_N_S_40_54_a3,
author = {Frank Markham Brown and Sergiu Rudeanu},
title = {A {Functional} {Approach} to the {Theory} of {Prime} {Implicants}},
journal = {Publications de l'Institut Math\'ematique},
pages = {23 },
year = {1986},
volume = {_N_S_40},
number = {54},
language = {en},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/PIM_1986_N_S_40_54_a3/}
}
Frank Markham Brown; Sergiu Rudeanu. A Functional Approach to the Theory of Prime Implicants. Publications de l'Institut Mathématique, _N_S_40 (1986) no. 54, p. 23 . http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/PIM_1986_N_S_40_54_a3/