On quasi-identities of finite modular lattices. II

Abstract

The existence of a finite identity basis for any finite lattice was established by R. McKenzie in 1970, but the analogous statement for quasi-identities is incorrect. So, there is a finite lattice that does not have a finite quasi-identity basis and, V.A. Gorbunov and D.M. Smirnov asked which finite lattices have finite quasiidentity bases. In 1984 V.I. Tumanov conjectured that a proper quasivariety generated by a finite modular lattice is not finitely based. He also found two conditions for quasivarieties which provide this conjecture. We construct a finite modular lattice that does not satisfy Tumanov’s conditions but quasivariety generated by this lattice is not finitely based.

Keywords

• lattice
• finite lattice
• modular lattice
• quasivariety
• variety
• quasi-identity