A Characterization of P-Compatible Varieties
Abstract
P-Compatibility is a hereditary property of identities which generalizes the properties of normality and externality of identities. Chajda characterized the normalization of a variety by an algebraic construction called a choice algebra. In this paper, we generalize this characterization to the least P-compatible variety P(V) determined by a variety V for any partition P using P-choice algebras. We also study the clone of (strongly) P-compatible n-ary terms of a variety V, and relate identities of this clone to (strongly) P-compatible hyperidentities of the variety V.
Research of the third author was supported by NSERC of Canada.