A quasi-Mal'cev condition with unexpected application. (Q2351514)
From MaRDI portal
scientific article
Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
---|---|---|---|
English | A quasi-Mal'cev condition with unexpected application. |
scientific article |
Statements
A quasi-Mal'cev condition with unexpected application. (English)
0 references
23 June 2015
0 references
A quasi-Mal'cev condition for quasivarieties is established. In the case of locally finite quasivarieties it forbids strongly abelian congruences and for varieties it is equivalent to possessing a weak difference term. Such a variety is called strictly active. The equivalent conditions are: \(V\) is active, \(V\) has a Taylor term. The most general class of locally finite varieties having this property does not interpret in the variety of sets. Applications for relational structures (irreflexive digraph and reflexive tournament) are included.
0 references
quasi-Maltsev conditions
0 references
locally finite quasivarieties
0 references
locally finite varieties
0 references
polymorphisms
0 references