Interpretability Types for Regular Varieties of Algebras
D. M. Smirnov
Abstract:
It is proved that for every regular variety
$V$ of algebras, an interpretability type
$[V]$ in the lattice
${\mathbb L}^{\rm int}$ is primary w.r.t. intersection, and so has at most one covering. Moreover, the sole covering, if any, for
$[V]$ is necessarily infinite. For a locally finite regular variety
$V$,
$[V]$ has no covering. Cyclic varieties of algebras turn out to be particularly interesting among the regular. Each of these is a variety of
$n$-groupoids
$(A; f)$ defined by an identity $f(x_1,\ldots, x_n)=f(x_{\lambda(1)},\ldots, x_{\lambda(n)})$, where
$\lambda$ is an
$n$-cycle of degree
$n\geqslant 2$.
Interpretability types of the cyclic varieties form, in
${\mathbb L}^{\rm int}$, a subsemilattice isomorphic to a semilattice of square-free natural numbers
$n\geqslant 2$, under taking
$m\vee n=[m,n]$ (l.c.m.).
UDC:
512.572 Received: 08.04.2002