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Varieties of aperiodic monoids with central idempotents whose subvariety lattice is distributive

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We completely classify all varieties of aperiodic monoids with central idempotents whose subvariety lattice is distributive.

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The author thanks Edmond W.H. Lee, Boris M. Vernikov and Mikhail V. Volkov for several comments and suggestions for improving the manuscript.

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Gusev, S.V. Varieties of aperiodic monoids with central idempotents whose subvariety lattice is distributive. Monatsh Math 201, 79–108 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00605-022-01717-x

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