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Exact-m-majority terms

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Abstract

We say that an idempotent term t is an exact-m-majority term if t evaluates to a, whenever the element a occurs exactly m times in the arguments of t, and all the other arguments are equal.

If m < n and some variety đ“„ has an n-ary exact-m-majority term, then đ“„ is congruence modular. For certain values of n and m, for example, n = 5 and m = 3, the existence of an n-ary exact-m-majority term neither implies congruence distributivity, nor congruence permutability.

MSC 2010: Primary 08B05; 08B10

Work performed under the auspices of G.N.S.A.G.A. Work partially supported by PRIN 2012 “Logica, Modelli e Insiemi”. The author acknowledges the MIUR Department Project awarded to the Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, CUP E83C18000100006.


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Received: 2023-02-07
Accepted: 2023-08-10
Published Online: 2024-05-24
Published in Print: 2024-04-25

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