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We present a direct proof showing that every finite algebra generating a congruence join semidistributive variety has a cyclic term.
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Presented by E. Kiss.
The first author was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic under the grant No. 201/09/P223 and by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic under the grants No. MEB 050817 and No. MSM 0021620839. The second author thanks the Foundation for Polish Science grant No. HOM/2008/7 (supported by MF EOG), Eduard Čech Center grant No. LC 505 and Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland grant No. N206 357036.
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Barto, L., Kozik, M. Cyclic terms for SD⋁ varieties revisited. Algebra Univers. 64, 137–142 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-010-0094-z
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