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Around 1960, Bjarni Jónsson was analyzing the structural consequences of P. M. Whitman’s solution to the word problem for free lattices [448], and made the following observation. Whitman had shown that every element in Free(X) can be represented by a unique (up to associativity and commutativity) shortest term ω.
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Adaricheva, K., Nation, J.B. (2016). Classes of Semidistributive Lattices. In: Grätzer, G., Wehrung, F. (eds) Lattice Theory: Special Topics and Applications. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44236-5_3
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