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The variety generated by planar modular lattices

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We investigate the variety generated by the class of planar modular lattices. The main result is a structure theorem describing the subdirectly irreducible members of this variety.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada

    G. Grätzer & R. W. Quackenbush

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Presented by B. Davey.

Research of the first author is supported by the NSERC of Canada.

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Grätzer, G., Quackenbush, R.W. The variety generated by planar modular lattices. Algebra Univers. 63, 187–201 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-010-0070-7

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