Non-finitely based monoids.

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Abstract: We present a general method for proving that a semigroup is non-finitely based. The method is strong enough to cover the non-finite basis arguments in articles [1,3,4,5,7,8, 11,14,16,21,27,31,36,37]. In particular, the method allows to generalize the results in [1,8,36,37] and to simplify their proofs. The method also allows to remove one of the requirements on the "special system of identities" used by P. Perkins in [16] to find the first two examples of finite non-finitely based semigroups. We use our method to prove eleven new sufficient conditions under which a monoid is non-finitely based. As an application, we find infinitely many new examples of finite finitely based aperiodic monoids whose direct product is non-finitely based.


The author provides eight conditions under which a monoid \(S\) admits no finite identity basis (Theorem 4.4). Each of these conditions involves two parameters -- a finite set of words \(W\) and an infinite sequence of identities \(\Sigma\) -- and is formulated as follows: if \(S\) satisfies all identities in \(\Sigma\) but each word in \(W\) is an isoterm for \(S\), then \(S\) is non-finitely based. The techniques used in the proof is also applied to simplify some known conditions under which a semigroup is non-finitely based, in particular, the ones found by \textit{P. Perkins} [J. Algebra 11, 298-314 (1969; Zbl 0186.03401)] and \textit{E. W. H. Lee} [Monatsh. Math. 168, No. 3-4, 461-472 (2012; Zbl 1292.20065)]; as yet another application the author provides a new proof for a result due to the reviewer [Int. J. Algebra Comput. 14, No. 5-6, 817-827 (2004; Zbl 1074.20036)].



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