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Esakia's theorem states that Grzegorczyk's logic is the largest modal companion of intuitionistic propositional calculus. We prove that already the one-variable fragment of intuitionistic predicate calculus does not have the largest modal companion, yielding that Esakia's theorem fails in the monadic setting.

We prove that the category of topological spaces and open maps does not have binary products, thus resolving the Esakia problem in the negative. We also prove that the categories of complete Heyting algebras and complete closure algebras do not have binary coproducts.

The Blok-Esakia Theorem establishes that the lattice of superintuitionistic logics is isomorphic to the lattice of extensions of Grzegorczyk's logic. We prove that the Blok-Esakia isomorphism $\sigma$ does not extend to the fragments of the corresponding predicate logics of already one fixed variable. In other words, we prove that $\sigma$ is no longer an isomorphism from the lattice of extensions of the monadic intuitionistic logic to the lattice of extensions of the monadic Grzegorczyk logic., Comment: 23 pages

We investigate whether the set of subfit elements of a distributive semilattice is an ideal. This question was raised by the second author at the BLAST conference in 2022. We show that in general it has a negative solution, however if the semilattice is a lattice, then the solution is positive. This is somewhat unexpected since, as we show, a semilattice is subfit if and only if so is its distributive lattice envelope., Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure

In our previous work, we introduced McKinsey-Tarski algebras (MT-algebras for short) as an alternative pointfree approach to topology. Here we study local compactness in MT-algebras. We establish the Hofmann-Mislove theorem for sober MT-algebras, using which we develop the MT-algebra versions of such well-known dualities in pointfree topology as Hofmann-Lawson, Isbell, and Stone dualities. This yields a new perspective on these classic results.