The probability of triviality

DOI10.1007/S000120050062MaRDI QIDQ1966131zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joel Berman, Harry Lakser

Publication date 27 February 2000

Published in Algebra Universalis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s000120050062

zbMATH Keywords

equational basisidentityprobabilitytrivial algebravariety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free algebras (08B20) Varieties (08B99)

Review text

The following problems are treated: Given a variety \(V\) of type \(\tau \) and an identity \(p\approx q\) of type \(\tau \). What is the probability that \(p\approx q\) is satisfied only by the trivial algebra of \(V\)? If \(W\) is a subvariety of \(V\), what is the probability that \(p\approx q\) together with \(\text{Id}(V)\) form an equational basis for \(W\)? Some criteria that allow explicit calculation of these probabilities are presented.

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