Abstract:
The closed classes of $k$-valued logic $P_k$, $k\geq 3$, which are maximal among
all closed classes without finite bases are constructed. Such classes have no
finite bases, but all their proper closed super-classes have finite bases.
Such classes are called here maximal.
It is shown that for any $k\geq 3$ maximal classes exist in $P_k$, and
the set of these classes is at most countable.
For $k=3$ a maximal class of depth 5 in the lattice $\mathfrak C_{k}$
of all closed classes of $k$-valued logic is found, and for $k>3$
similar classes of depth 3 are described.