A topological duality for monadic n-valued Luk asiewicz algebras introduced by M. Abad (Abad, M.: Estructuras cíclica y monádica de un álgebra de L ukasiewicz nvalente. Notas de Lógica Matemática 36. Instituto de Matemática. Universidad Nacional del Sur, 1988) is determined. When restricted to the category of Q-distributive lattices and Q-homomorphims, it coincides with the duality obtained by R. Cignoli in 1991. A new characterization of congruences by means of certain closed and involutive subsets of the associated space is also obtained. This allowed us to describe subdirectly irreducible algebras in this variety, arriving by a different method at the results established by Abad.
Suppose k + 1 runners having nonzero distinct constant speeds run laps on a unit-length circular track. The Lonely Runner Conjecture states that there is a time at which a given runner is at distance at least 1/(k + 1) from all the others. The conjecture has been already settled up to seven (k ≤ 6) runners while it is open for eight or more runners. In this paper the conjecture has been verified for four or more runners having some particular speeds using elementary tools.