Characterization of discriminator varieties
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Abstract:
We prove that a variety $\mathcal {V}$ is a discriminator variety if and only if $\mathcal {V}$ has the Fraser-Horn property and every member of $\mathcal {V}$ is representable as a Boolean product whose factors are directly indecomposable or trivial.References
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Additional Information
- Diego Vaggione
- Affiliation: Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física (FaMAF), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - Ciudad Universitaria Córdoba 5000, Argentina
- Email: vaggione@mate.uncor.edu
- Received by editor(s): March 2, 1999
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 14, 1999
- Published electronically: August 30, 2000
- Additional Notes: The author’s research was supported by CONICOR and SECYT (UNC)
- Communicated by: Carl G. Jockusch, Jr.
- © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 663-666
- MSC (2000): Primary 08A05, 08A30, 08A40, 08B10, 06E15
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-00-05627-6
- MathSciNet review: 1706965