A minimal pseudo-complex monoid

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Abstract

A monoid is pseudo-complex if the semigroup variety it generates has uncountably many subvarieties, while the monoid variety it generates has only finitely many subvarieties. The smallest pseudo-complex monoid currently known is of order seven. The present article exhibits a pseudo-complex monoid of order six and shows that every smaller monoid is not pseudo-complex. Consequently, minimal pseudo-complex monoids are of order six.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)15–25
JournalArchiv der Mathematik
Volume120
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2023

Bibliographical note

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Funding

The author is indebted to the reviewer for a number of important suggestions. He is also grateful to Sergey Gusev, Marcel Jackson, and Boris Vernikov for many fruitful discussions on monoid varieties.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Mathematics

Keywords

  • Lattice of varieties
  • Monoid
  • Semigroup
  • Variety

Disciplines

  • Mathematics

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