The Lattice of Equational Classes of Commutative Semigroups
- 1 October 1971
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Mathematical Society in Canadian Journal of Mathematics
- Vol. 23 (5) , 875-895
- https://doi.org/10.4153/cjm-1971-098-0
Abstract
There has been some interest lately in equational classes of commutative semigroups (see, for example, [2; 4; 7; 8]). The atoms of the lattice of equational classes of commutative semigroups have been known for some time [5]. Perkins [6] has shown that each equational class of commutative semigroups is finitely based. Recently, Schwabauer [7; 8] proved that the lattice is not modular, and described a distributive sublattice of the lattice.The present paper describes a “skeleton” sublattice of the lattice, which is isomorphic to A × N+ with a unit adjoined, where A is the lattice of pairs (r, s) of non-negative integers with r ≦ s and s ≧ 1, ordered component-wise, and N+ is the natural numbers with division.Keywords
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