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Nonfinitely based ai-semirings with finitely based semigroup reducts

Logic 2021-12-30 v1 Combinatorics Group Theory

Abstract

We present some general results implying nonfinite axiomatisability of many additively idempotent semirings with finitely based semigroup reducts. The smallest is a 33-element commutative example, which we show also has \texttt{NP}-hard membership for its variety. As well as being the only nonfinite axiomatisable ai-semiring on 33-elements, we are able to show that its nonfinite basis property infects many related semirings, including the natural ai-semiring structure on the semigroup B21B_2^1. We also extend previous group-theory based examples significantly, by showing that any finite additively idempotent semiring with a nonabelian nilpotent subgroup is not finitely axiomatisable for its identities.

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@article{arxiv.2112.13918,
  title  = {Nonfinitely based ai-semirings with finitely based semigroup reducts},
  author = {Marcel Jackson and Miaomiao Ren and Xianzhong Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.13918},
  year   = {2021}
}