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Two examples in varieties of monoids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John R. Isbell
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Buffalo

Extract

This note exhibits an infinite independent set of laws for monoids (viz. (xpyp)2 = (ypxp)2, p prime) and a variety of groups defined by one law (which is x2y2 = y2x2) such that the smallest containing variety of monoids is not finitely definable.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1970

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