In this article we introduce the variety of monadic BL-algebras as BL-algebras endowed with two monadic operators ∀ and ∃. After a study of the basic properties of this variety we show that this class is the equivalent algebraic semantics of the monadic fragment of Hájek's basic predicate logic. In addition, we start a systematic study of the main subvarieties of monadic BL-algebras, some of which constitute the algebraic semantics of well-known monadic logics: monadic Gödel logic and monadic Lukasiewicz logic. In the last section we give a complete characterization of totally ordered monadic BL-algebras.

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In this paper we construct, given a Wajsberg hoop A, an MV-algebra MV(A) such that the underlying set A of A is a maximal filter of MV(A) and the quotient MV(A)/A is the two element chain. As an application we provide a topological duality for locally finite Wajsberg hoops based on a previously known duality for locally finite MV-algebras. We also give another duality for k-valued Wajsberg hoops based on a different representation of k-valued MV-algebras and show the relation to the first duality. We also apply this construction to give a topological representation for free k-valued Wajsberg hoops.