Idempotent distributive semirings II

Abstract

In [2] it is shown that every idempotent distributive semiring is the Plonka sum of a semilattice ordered system of idempotent distributive semirings which satisfy the generalized absorption law x+xyx+x=x. We shall show that an idempotent distributive semiring which satisfies the above absorption law must be a subdirect product of a distributive lattice and a semiring which satisfies the additional identity xyx+x+xyx=xyx. Using this, we construct the lattice of all equational classes of idempotent distributive semirings for which the two reducts are normal bands.