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Congruence-formation recovery identity

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HJMEilenberg.recover_congruence

by Cosme · Sep 9, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

congruenceseilenberg-theoremformal-languagesmany-sorted-algebra

Let SSS be finite, let F\mathfrak FF be a finite-index congruence formation, and let L\mathcal LL be a regular-language formation that agrees at every variable family with the saturation construction LF\mathcal L_{\mathfrak F}LF​. Then applying the language-to-congruence construction recovers the original formation pointwise:

FL(X)=F(X)for every sorted variable family X.\mathfrak F_{\mathcal L}(X)=\mathfrak F(X) \qquad\text{for every sorted variable family $X$.}FL​(X)=F(X)for every sorted variable family X.

This is the first inverse identity in the final formation isomorphism.

Preamble
import Definitions.Def_HJMEilenberg_Formations
Formal statement
namespace HJMEilenberg

open MSKleene

/-- First recovery identity in Proposition 6.23. -/
theorem recover_congruence {S : Type} [Finite S] {sig : Signature S}
    (F : FiniteIndexCongruenceFormation sig)
    (L : RegularLanguageFormation sig)
    (hL : ∀ X : SSet S, L.languages X = languagesOf F X) :
    ∀ X : SSet S, congruencesOf L X = F.congruences X := by
  sorry

end HJMEilenberg
Source
Juan Climent Vidal and Enric Cosme Llópez, Eilenberg theorems for many-sorted formations, Houston Journal of Mathematics 45(2) (2019), Section 6, pp. 351–416; arXiv:1604.04792. The free-term substrate is cross-checked against the companion TeX source A Kleene theorem for free many-sorted algebras. Section 6, first recovery identity in the proof of the final formation-isomorphism proposition.
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What the Lean code literally says, in plain math · gpt-5

For every type SSS equipped with the proposition that SSS is finite (no enumeration, decidable equality, or inhabitant is assumed), every SSS-sorted signature Σ\SigmaΣ assigning a type of operation symbols Σw,s\Sigma_{w,s}Σw,s​ to each finite list www of input sorts and output sort sss, every finite-index congruence formation FFF for Σ\SigmaΣ, and every regular-language formation L\mathcal LL for Σ\SigmaΣ, the following conditional assertion holds. Here an SSS-sorted set XXX is an arbitrary family of types (Xs)s∈S(X_s)_{s\in S}(Xs​)s∈S​, TΣ(X)sT_\Sigma(X)_sTΣ​(X)s​ is the type of well-sorted Σ\SigmaΣ-terms of sort sss whose variables come from XXX, a language KKK on TΣ(X)T_\Sigma(X)TΣ​(X) is an arbitrary family of subsets Ks⊆TΣ(X)sK_s\subseteq T_\Sigma(X)_sKs​⊆TΣ​(X)s​, and a congruence Φ\PhiΦ is a family of equivalence relations ∼Φ,s\sim_{\Phi,s}∼Φ,s​ on these term types that is preserved by every basic operation; Φ≤Ψ\Phi\leq\PsiΦ≤Ψ means ∼Φ,s\sim_{\Phi,s}∼Φ,s​ is contained in ∼Ψ,s\sim_{\Psi,s}∼Ψ,s​ at every sort, Φ∩Ψ\Phi\cap\PsiΦ∩Ψ is the sortwise intersection, the pullback f∗Θf^*\Thetaf∗Θ along a homomorphism f:TΣ(X)→TΣ(Y)f:T_\Sigma(X)\to T_\Sigma(Y)f:TΣ​(X)→TΣ​(Y) relates x,yx,yx,y exactly when fs(x)∼Θ,sfs(y)f_s(x)\sim_{\Theta,s}f_s(y)fs​(x)∼Θ,s​fs​(y), and Φ\PhiΦ has finite index exactly when the dependent disjoint union ∑s∈STΣ(X)s/∼Φ,s\sum_{s\in S}T_\Sigma(X)_s/{\sim_{\Phi,s}}∑s∈S​TΣ​(X)s​/∼Φ,s​ is finite. A congruence Φ\PhiΦ saturates KKK exactly when x∼Φ,syx\sim_{\Phi,s}yx∼Φ,s​y implies x∈Ks⟺y∈Ksx\in K_s\Longleftrightarrow y\in K_sx∈Ks​⟺y∈Ks​ for every s,x,ys,x,ys,x,y. The syntactic congruence Syn⁡(K)\operatorname{Syn}(K)Syn(K) used below is literally the congruence for which x∼Syn⁡(K),syx\sim_{\operatorname{Syn}(K),s}yx∼Syn(K),s​y means that, for every congruence Ψ\PsiΨ, if every congruence Φ\PhiΦ saturating KKK satisfies Φ≤Ψ\Phi\leq\PsiΦ≤Ψ, then x∼Ψ,syx\sim_{\Psi,s}yx∼Ψ,s​y; a language is called regular when this congruence has finite index. The bundled assumptions on FFF are that for every XXX, F(X)F(X)F(X) is a nonempty set of congruences on TΣ(X)T_\Sigma(X)TΣ​(X), is closed under binary intersection, is upward closed under ≤\leq≤, contains f∗Θf^*\Thetaf∗Θ whenever Θ∈F(Y)\Theta\in F(Y)Θ∈F(Y) and the map x↦[fs(x)]Θ:TΣ(X)s→TΣ(Y)s/∼Θ,sx\mapsto[f_s(x)]_\Theta:T_\Sigma(X)_s\to T_\Sigma(Y)_s/{\sim_{\Theta,s}}x↦[fs​(x)]Θ​:TΣ​(X)s​→TΣ​(Y)s​/∼Θ,s​ is surjective for every sort sss, and contains only finite-index congruences. The bundled assumptions on L\mathcal LL are that each K∈L(X)K\in\mathcal L(X)K∈L(X) is regular; every KKK saturated by the universal congruence (which relates every pair of terms of the same sort) belongs to L(X)\mathcal L(X)L(X); whenever K1,K2∈L(X)K_1,K_2\in\mathcal L(X)K1​,K2​∈L(X), every language saturated by Syn⁡(K1)∩Syn⁡(K2)\operatorname{Syn}(K_1)\cap\operatorname{Syn}(K_2)Syn(K1​)∩Syn(K2​) also belongs to L(X)\mathcal L(X)L(X); and whenever M∈L(Y)M\in\mathcal L(Y)M∈L(Y), f:TΣ(X)→TΣ(Y)f:T_\Sigma(X)\to T_\Sigma(Y)f:TΣ​(X)→TΣ​(Y) has each map x↦[fs(x)]Syn⁡(M)x\mapsto[f_s(x)]_{\operatorname{Syn}(M)}x↦[fs​(x)]Syn(M)​ surjective, and KKK is saturated by f∗Syn⁡(M)f^*\operatorname{Syn}(M)f∗Syn(M), then K∈L(X)K\in\mathcal L(X)K∈L(X). If, for every arbitrary SSS-sorted set XXX, the selected languages are exactly L(X)={K∣∃Φ∈F(X), Φ saturates K}\mathcal L(X)=\{K\mid\exists\Phi\in F(X),\ \Phi\text{ saturates }K\}L(X)={K∣∃Φ∈F(X), Φ saturates K}, then, for every such XXX, the selected congruences are exactly F(X)={Φ∣∑s∈STΣ(X)s/∼Φ,s is finite and, for every language K, Φ saturates K⇒K∈L(X)}F(X)=\{\Phi\mid \sum_{s\in S}T_\Sigma(X)_s/{\sim_{\Phi,s}}\text{ is finite and, for every language }K,\ \Phi\text{ saturates }K\Rightarrow K\in\mathcal L(X)\}F(X)={Φ∣∑s∈S​TΣ​(X)s​/∼Φ,s​ is finite and, for every language K, Φ saturates K⇒K∈L(X)}. The quantifiers include S=∅S=\varnothingS=∅, empty or infinite variable types XsX_sXs​, empty term sorts, nullary operations, and signatures having empty or infinite types of operation symbols; thus sortwise universal, compatibility, saturation, and surjectivity conditions can be vacuous on absent sorts or elements, the finite-index condition is automatic when SSS is empty, and for any F,LF,\mathcal LF,L for which the displayed language equality premise does not hold, the conditional assertion imposes no conclusion.

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  • Endorsed by Shuze Chen · Sep 9, 2026

  • Endorsed by Cosme · Sep 9, 2026

    Confirmed by the mission captain (proposal self-audit).

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