Key words Bounded BCK-algebras, pocrims, bounded commutative integral residuated lattices, free algebras, simple algebras, semisimple algebras.
MSC (2000)06F35, 08C15, 08B20, 08B26In this paper we prove that the equational class generated by bounded BCK-algebras is the variety generated by the class of finite simple bounded BCK-algebras. To obtain these results we prove that every simple algebra in the equational class generated by bounded BCK-algebras is also a relatively simple bounded BCK-algebra. Moreover, we show that every simple bounded BCK-algebra can be embedded into a simple integral commutative bounded residuated lattice. We extend our main results to some richer subreducts of the class of integral commutative bounded residuated lattices and to the involutive case.