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Maltsev families of varieties closed under join or Maltsev product

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Maltsev families of varieties which are closed under join or Maltsev product are investigated. New Maltsev conditions for congruence semi-distributivity are given.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, U.S.A.

    Ralph Freese

  2. Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, U.S.A.

    Ralph McKenzie

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Freese, R., McKenzie, R. Maltsev families of varieties closed under join or Maltsev product. Algebra Univers. 77, 29–50 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-016-0420-1

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