Abstract:
It is known that the monoid wreath product of any semigroup varieties that are atoms in the lattice of all semigroup varieties mays have a finite as well as an infinite lattice of subvarieties. If this lattice is finite, then as a rule it has at most eleven elements. This was proved in a paper of the author in 2007. The exclusion is the monoid wreath product $\mathbf{Sl}\mathrm w\mathbf N_2$ of the variety of semilattices and the variety of semigroups with zero multiplication. The number of elements of the lattice $L(\mathbf{Sl}\mathrm w\mathbf N_2)$ of subvarieties of $\mathbf{Sl}\mathrm w\mathbf N_2$ is still unknown. In our paper, we show that the lattice $L(\mathbf{Sl}\mathrm w\mathbf N_2)$ contains no less than 33 elements. In addition, we give some exponential upper bound of the cardinality of this lattice.