Free spectrum of the variety generated by the five element combinatorial Brandt semigroup. (Q863465)

Let \(A\) be a \(k\)-element finite algebra and let \(\mathcal V\) be the variety generated by \(A\). It is known that the size of the free algebra \(F_{\mathcal V}(n)\) in \(\mathcal V\) freely generated by \(n\) elements is less than \(k^{k^n}\). If \(k\geq 2\), then this number is greater than \(n\). The free spectrum of a variety \(\mathcal V\) is the sequence of cardinalities \(|F_{\mathcal V}(n)|\), \(n=0,1,2,\dots\). The authors investigate the free spectrum of the variety \(\mathcal B\) of semigroups generated by the five element combinatorial Brandt semigroup \(B_2\). They prove that \(\log|F{\mathcal V}(n)|\sim 2n\log n\).