The conjecture that the quasivariety of odd antilattices is not a variety

An antilattice is an algebra with two binary operations, usually denoted by \land and \lor, satisfying the identities defining antilattices. An antilattice is odd if it has no subantilattice with 22 elements. The class of all odd antilattices is a quasivariety.

Odd-antlattice quasivariety conjecture. The quasivariety of odd antilattices is proper; that is, it is not a variety.

The preceding result gives a quasi-equational axiomatization of odd antilattices. The conjecture asks whether those quasi-identities can be replaced by identities; a positive answer would make odd antilattices a variety, whereas this conjecture predicts that they cannot.

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Karin Cvetko-Vah, Michael Kinyon and Tomaž Pisanski, “On elementary, odd, semimagic and other classes of antilattices”, arXiv:2112.07593 (2021).

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