Embedding lattices of quasivarieties of periodic groups into lattices of additively idempotent semiring varieties: An algebraic proof

Abstract

A general result by Jackson (Flat algebras and the translation of universal Horn logic to equational logic, J. Symb. Log. 73(1) (2008) 90--128) implies that the lattice of all quasivarieties of groups of exponent dividing $n$ embeds into the lattice $L({\mathbf{Sr}}_n)$ of all varieties of additively idempotent semirings whose multiplicative semigroups are unions of groups of exponent dividing $n$; the image of this embedding is an interval in $L({\mathbf{Sr}}_n)$. We provide a new, direct, and purely algebraic proof of these facts and present a new identity basis for the top variety of the interval. In addition, we obtain new information about the lattice $L({\mathbf{Sr}}_n)$, demonstrating that the properties of the lattice for $n\ge 3$ differ drastically from those previously known when $n=1$ or $2$.

19 pages, 2 figures