Abstract
Subdirectly irreducible idempotent semigroups were characterized in [3], and in that paper, their connection with the various equational classes of idempotent semigroups was discussed. All these results are in terms of identities, so that examples of subdirectly irreducibles in the equational classes are explicitly known only for small classes. It is easy to show from general considerations (see the last section of the present paper) that every proper equational subclass of the class of idempotent semigroups is generated (as an equational class) by one or two subdirectly irreducibles. In this paper we give an example of a subdirectly irreducible for each join irreducible equational class of idempotent semigroups, which generates the class. This list, together with known results, gives explicit examples of one or two finite subdirectly irreducibles which generate the various equational classes.
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