Lattices of semigroup varieties (Q735936)

The authors give a survey of a great number of results obtained during four decades of investigations on lattices of semigroup varieties and formulate several open problems. The contents of the survey are as follows: Introduction. Chapter I. The first layer of information: 1. The lattice of all semigroup varieties; 2. Varieties of epigroups; 3. The cover relation; 4. Subvariety lattices of certain varieties. Chapter II. The main sublattices of the lattice of semigroup varieties: 5. Overcommutative varieties; 6. Completely regular varieties; 7. Nilvarieties; 8. Commutative varieties; 9. Rees-Sushkevich varieties. Chapter III. Varieties with some types of subvariety lattices: 10. Finiteness conditions; 11. Identities and related conditions; 12. Lattice universality; 13. Other restrictions. Chapter IV. Special elements of the lattice of semigroup varieties: 14. Modular and related elements; 15. Definable sets of varieties.