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The equational theories of representable residuated semigroups

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We show that the equational theory of representable lower semilattice-ordered residuated semigroups is finitely based. We survey related results.

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The author is grateful to the two anonymous referees for their useful comments.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK

    Szabolcs Mikulás

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Mikulás, S. The equational theories of representable residuated semigroups. Synthese 192, 2151–2158 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0513-3

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