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In these lectures we return to the RS Problem discussed in E. Kiss’s article (this volume). We discuss the current status of the problem and describe some results which arose from the study of the problem, including the solution to Tarski’s finite basis problem. A subtitle for these lectures might be “Some recent results in general algebra, mostly due to R. McKenzie.”
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Willard, R. (1997). Three Lectures on the RS Problem. In: Hart, B.T., Lachlan, A.H., Valeriote, M.A. (eds) Algebraic Model Theory. NATO ASI Series, vol 496. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8923-9_12
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