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A counterexample to the finite height conjecture

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There is an infinite subdirectly irreducible lattice which generates a variety that contains only finitely many subvarietes.

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    J. B. Nation

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Communicated by I. Rival

The author was supported in part by NSF Grant DMS 94-00511

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Nation, J.B. A counterexample to the finite height conjecture. Order 13, 1–9 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00383963

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