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Critical algebras and the Frattini congruence

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In this note we show that if two critical algebras generate the same congruence-permutable variety, then the varieties generated by their proper sections also coincide.

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The research of the first author has been supported by the Hungarian National Foundation for Scientific Research (OTKA), grant number 1903.

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Kiss, E.W., Vovsi, S.M. Critical algebras and the Frattini congruence. Algebra Universalis 34, 336–344 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01182090

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