On the direct decomposability of strong negations and S-implication operators on product lattices

In this paper, we discuss the direct product of strong negations. We characterize strong negations on product lattices that are direct products of strong negations. Furthermore, we present a method for constructing t-norms on product lattices which are not direct products. This method is quite general and useful to generate a wide class of such t-norms and solves an open problem posed in 2003 by Jenei and De Baets. Finally, we study direct decompositions of S-implication operators on product lattices. (C) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.