On endomorphism monoids in varieties of bands (Q331028)

Varieties of bands (idempotent semigroups) are considered from the angle of the class of their endomorphism monoids. The main result is the following theorem: Theorem. Every non-trivial variety \(\mathbb V\) has a proper class \(\mathrm{Gen}(\mathbb V)\) of non-isomorphic bands, not contained in any proper subvariety \(\mathbb W\) of \(\mathbb V\). For every \(B\in \mathrm{Gen}(\mathbb V)\), \(B\) generates the variety \(\mathbb V\) and for an arbitrary band \(B'\) in the variety of all bands allowing an isomorphism \(\phi :\operatorname{End}(B) \to \operatorname{End}(B')\), the induced bijection \(\tilde{\phi }: B\to B'\) is either an endomorphism between \(B\) and \(B'\) or between \(B^{\mathrm{op}}\) and \(B'\). Here, \(B^{\mathrm{op}}\) is the opposite band to \(B\).