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Exact-$m$-majority terms

Rings and Algebras 2024-05-28 v2

Abstract

We say that an idempotent term tt is an exact-mm-majority term if tt evaluates to aa, whenever the element aa occurs exactly mm times in the arguments of tt, and all the other arguments are equal. If m<nm<n and some variety V\mathcal V has an nn-ary exact-mm-majority term, then V\mathcal V is congruence modular. For certain values of nn and mm, for example, n=5n=5 and m=3m=3, the existence of an nn-ary exact-mm-majority term neither implies congruence distributivity, nor congruence permutability.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2209.12088,
  title  = {Exact-$m$-majority terms},
  author = {Paolo Lipparini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.12088},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v2 minor modifications

R2 v1 2026-06-28T02:01:50.733Z