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Locally finite, congruence meet-semidistributive varieties have been characterized by numerous Mal’cev conditions and, recently, by two strong Mal’cev conditions. We provide three new strong Mal’cev characterizations and a new Mal’cev characterization each of which improves the known ones in some way.
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Presented by R. Willard.
The first and second authors were supported by the grant no. 174018 of the Ministry of Education and Science of Serbia.
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Jovanović, J., Marković, P., McKenzie, R. et al. Optimal strong Mal’cev conditions for congruence meet-semidistributivity in locally finite varieties. Algebra Univers. 76, 305–325 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-016-0406-z
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