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On the finiteness problem for classes of modular lattices

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The finiteness problem is shown to be unsolvable for any sufficiently large class of modular lattices.

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Herrmann, C. On the finiteness problem for classes of modular lattices. Algebra Univers. 80, 4 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-019-0579-3

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