Mysterious varieties (Q799713)

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    1984
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    The following diagram showing subclasses of the class of hereditarily semi-simple (HSS) varieties appears to have a missing variety at the place marked with a query. (Here CP=congruence permutable, CD=congruence distributive, FI=filtral D=discriminator, FG=finitely-generated, PP=paraprimal, QP=quasiprimal.) A non-trivial variety, V, is called mysterious if for some r, \(1\leq r<\omega\), there are 3-place terms M and \(t_ 0,...t_{r-1}\) such that the subdirectly irreducible members of V satisfy the following axioms. (a) \(M(x,y,y)=x;\) (b) \(M(x,x,y)=y;\) (c) \(t_ p(x,x,y)=y,p<r;\) (d) \(x\neq y\to\bigvee_{p<r}t_ p(x,y,z)=x.\) The main result of this note is that mysterious varieties indeed occupy the desired position in the above diagram.
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    hereditarily semi-simple varieties
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    congruence permutable
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    congruence distributive
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    filtral
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    discriminator
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    finitely-generated
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    paraprimal
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    quasiprimal
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    3-place terms
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    subdirectly irreducible
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    mysterious varieties
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