arXiv · 2209.12088
Exact-$m$-majority terms
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 $\mathcal V$ has an $n$-ary exact-$m$-majority term, then $\mathcal V$ 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.
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Paolo Lipparini. 2022-09-24. Exact-$m$-majority terms. https://doi.org/10.1515/ms-2024-0022
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