I am reading the book "Notes on logic and set theory".
It defines an $n$-ary equation, in an operational type $\Omega$, to be an expression $(s=t)$ where $s$ and $t$ are elements of $F_\Omega(X_n)$.
It defines an algebraic theory to be a pair $T=(\Omega,E)$ where $\Omega$ is an operational type and $E$ is a set of equations in $\Omega$.
It defines an enlarged set $\tilde E$ of equation derived from $E$.
$\tilde E$ is defined as inductively as follow:
- $E \subseteq \tilde E$
- $\tilde E$ is an equivalence relation on the set of terms: thus
- for any term $t,(t=t) \in \tilde E$
- if $(s=t) \in \tilde E$, then $(t=s) \in \tilde E$
- if $(s=t)$ and $(t=u)$ are in $\tilde E$, then $(s=u) \in \tilde E$
- $\tilde E$ is closed under substitution, in two different ways:
- if $(s=t)\in \tilde E$, $x_i$ is a variable involved in $s$ and/or $t$ and $u$ is any term, then $(s[u/x_i]=t[u/x_i]) \in \tilde E $
- if $s$ is a term, $x_i$ a variable involved in $s$ and $(t=u) \in \tilde E$, then $(s[t/x_i]=s[u/x_i]) \in \tilde E$.
Then it says
If $s$ and $t$ are elements of $F_\Omega(X)$ for some $X$, let us write $s \sim_E t$ to mean $(s=t) \in \tilde E$.
$F_{(\Omega,E)}(X)$ is the set of $\sim_E$-equivalence classes
Then it states the following theorem
$F_{(\Omega,E)}(X)$ inherit an $\Omega$-structure from $F_\Omega(X)$
It gives the following proof
Clause 3.2 of the definition of $\tilde E$ says that the interpretation in $F_\Omega(X)$ of the operations $\Omega$ respect the equivalence relation $\sim_E$, and hence induce operations on the quotient set $F_{(\Omega,E)}(X)$
I am not able to understand the proof.
For example: What are the operations that are inducted on $F_{(\Omega,E)}(X)$?
It seems to me that the author of the book is using some well known general properties of the quotient sets.
The first important property is the following one:
Now consider an equivalence relation $\sim$ which satisfies the same properties as $\sim_E$. Then we get a map $\pi \colon A \to A/\sim$ such that $\pi$ is surjective and for every operation $\omega \colon A^n \to A$ and for every $(t_1,\dots,t_n),(t'_1,\dots,t'_n) \in A$ such that $t_i \sim t'_i$ then $$\omega(t_1,\dots,t_n) \sim \omega(t'_1,\dots,t'_n)$$ (this follows by the hypothesis on the equivalence relation $\sim$) and so $\pi \circ \omega(t_1,\dots,t_n) = \pi \circ \omega(t'_1,\dots,t'_n)$, where $\pi \circ \omega \colon A^n \to A/\sim$.
By the property stated above there's a $\bar \omega \colon A/\sim^n \to A/\sim$ such that $\bar \omega \circ \pi^n = \pi \circ \omega$.
In this way induce for every $\omega \in \Omega$ an operation $\bar \omega$ on the set $A/\sim$ and so we induce a $\Omega$-structure on $A/\sim$.
Hope this helps.