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Book Information:
Authors:
Ralph Freese and
Ralph McKenzie
Title:
Commutator theory for congruence modular varieties
Additional book information:
London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes, vol. 125, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne, 1987, 227 pp., $27.95. ISBN 0-521-34832-3.
Kirby A. Baker, Finite equational bases for finite algebras in a congruence-distributive equational class, Advances in Math. 24 (1977), no. 3, 207–243. MR 447074, DOI 10.1016/0001-8708(77)90056-1
2. G. Birkhoff, On the structure of abstract algebras, Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 31 (1935), 433-454.
Stanley Burris and Ralph McKenzie, Decidability and Boolean representations, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1981), no. 246, viii+106. MR 617896, DOI 10.1090/memo/0246
Ralph Freese and Ralph McKenzie, Residually small varieties with modular congruence lattices, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 264 (1981), no. 2, 419–430. MR 603772, DOI 10.1090/S0002-9947-1981-0603772-9
H. Peter Gumm, Geometrical methods in congruence modular algebras, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (1983), no. 286, viii+79. MR 714648, DOI 10.1090/memo/0286
Joachim Hagemann and Christian Herrmann, A concrete ideal multiplication for algebraic systems and its relation to congruence distributivity, Arch. Math. (Basel) 32 (1979), no. 3, 234–245. MR 541622, DOI 10.1007/BF01238496
Bjarni Jónsson, Algebras whose congruence lattices are distributive, Math. Scand. 21 (1967), 110–121 (1968). MR 237402, DOI 10.7146/math.scand.a-10850
Ralph McKenzie, Finite equational bases for congruence modular varieties, Algebra Universalis 24 (1987), no. 3, 224–250. MR 931614, DOI 10.1007/BF01195263
9. R. McKenzie and M. Valeriote, The structure of decidable locally finite varieties,
Jonathan D. H. Smith, Mal′cev varieties, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 554, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1976. MR 0432511
Walter Taylor, Some applications of the term condition, Algebra Universalis 14 (1982), no. 1, 11–24. MR 634412, DOI 10.1007/BF02483903
- 1.
- K. A. Baker, Finite equational bases for finite algebras in a congruence distributive equational class, Adv. in Math. 24 (1977), 207-243. MR 0447074
- 2.
- G. Birkhoff, On the structure of abstract algebras, Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 31 (1935), 433-454.
- 3.
- S. Burris and R. McKenzie, Decidability and Boolean representations, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. vol. 32, no. 246, 1981. MR 617896
- 4.
- R. Freese and R. McKenzie, Residually small varieties with modular congruence lattices, Transl. Amer. Math. Soc. 264 (1981), 419-430. MR 603772
- 5.
- H. -P. Gumm, Geometrical methods in congruence modular algebras, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 45, no. 286, 1983. MR 714648
- 6.
- J. Hagemann and C. Herrmann, A concrete ideal multiplication for algebraic systems and its relation to congruence distributivity, Arch. Math. (Basel) 32 (1979), 234-245. MR 541622
- 7.
- B. Jónsson, Algebras whose congruence lattices are distributive, Math. Scand. 21 (1967), 110-121. MR 237402
- 8.
- R. McKenzie, Finite equational bases for congruence modular varieties, Algebra Universalis 24 (1987), 224-251. MR 931614
- 9.
- R. McKenzie and M. Valeriote, The structure of decidable locally finite varieties,
- 10.
- J. D. H. Smith, Mal'cev varieties, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 554, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1976. MR 432511
- 11.
- W. Taylor, Some applications of the term condition, Algebra Universalis 14 (1982), 11-24. MR 634412
Review Information:
Reviewer:
Stanley Burris
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
20 (1989), 94-96
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15710-8