An equimorphic diversity case. (Q663605)

Let \(\mathcal C\) be a category of algebras (semigroups in the case under consideration). Two objects \(A,B\in\mathcal C\) are called equimorphic if the monoids \(\mathrm{End}(A)\) and \(\mathrm{End}(B)\) are isomorphic. It may be that there exists a non empty class \(\mathcal D\) of objects of \(\mathcal C\) such that every two distinct objects \(A,B\in\mathcal D\) are equimorphic and non-isomorphic. Let a cardinal \(\alpha\) exist satisfying \(|\mathcal D|\leq\alpha\) for every such \(\mathcal D\). The least such \(\alpha\) is called the equimorphic diversity of \(\mathcal C\). It was proved by \textit{B. M. Schein}, [J. Algebra 96, 548-565 (1985; Zbl 0579.20064)], that the semigroup variety \(\mathbb{NB}\) of normal bands is of equimorphic diversity 4. The authors prove that the semigroup variety \(\widetilde{\mathbb{NB}}\) defined by the identities \(x^2y=xy\), \(xuvy=xvuy\) is of equimorphic diversity 4, too. Also two subvarieties of \(\widetilde{\mathbb{NB}}\) of equimorphic diversity 2 are found.