A limit variety is a variety that is minimal with respect to being non-finitely based. The two limit varieties of Marcel Jackson are the only known examples of limit varieties of aperiodic monoids. Our previous work had shown that there exists a limit subvariety of aperiodic monoids that is different from Marcel Jacksons limit varieties. In this paper, we introduce a new limit variety of aperiodic monoids.
A variety is finitely based if it has a finite basis of identities. A minimal non-finitely based variety is called limit. A monoid is aperiodic if all its subgoups are trivial. Limit varieties of aperiodic monoids have been studied by Jackson, Lee, Zhang and Luo, Gusev and Sapir. In particular, Gusev and Sapir have recently reduced the problem of classifying all limit varieties of aperiodic monoids to the two tasks. One of them is to classify limit varieties of monoids satisfying $xsxt approx xsxtx$. In this paper, we completely solve this task. In particular, we exhibit the first example of a limit variety of monoids with countably infinitely many subvarieties. In view of the result by Jackson and Lee, the smallest known monoid generating a variety with continuum many subvarieties is of order six. It follows from the result by Edmunds et al. that if there exists a smaller example, then up to isomorphism and anti-isomorphism, it must be a unique monoid $P_2^1$ of order five. Our main result implies that the variety generated by $P_2^1$ contains only finitely based subvarieties and so has only countably many of them.
We survey results devoted to the lattice of varieties of monoids. Along with known results, some unpublished results are given with proofs. A number of open questions and problems are also formulated.
This paper shows how to construct coherent presentations of a class of monoids, including left-cancellative noetherian monoids containing no nontrivial invertible element and admitting a Garside family. Thereby, it resolves the question of finding a unifying generalisation of the following two distinct extensions of Delignes original construction of coherent presentations for spherical Artin-Tits monoids: to general Artin-Tits monoids, and to Garside monoids. The result is applied to a dual braid monoid, and to some monoids which are neither Artin-Tits nor Garside. For the Artin-Tits monoid of type $widetilde{A}_{2}$, a finite coherent presentation is given, having a finite Garside family as a generating set.
In this paper we introduce and study some geometric objects associated to Artin monoids. The Deligne complex for an Artin group is a cube complex that was introduced by the second author and Davis (1995) to study the K(pi,1) conjecture for these groups. Using a notion of Artin monoid cosets, we construct a version of the Deligne complex for Artin monoids. We show that for any Artin monoid this cube complex is contractible. Furthermore, we study the embedding of the monoid Deligne complex into the Deligne complex for the corresponding Artin group. We show that for any Artin group this is a locally isometric embedding. In the case of FC-type Artin groups this result can be strengthened to a globally isometric embedding, and it follows that the monoid Deligne complex is CAT(0) and its image in the Deligne complex is convex. We also consider the Cayley graph of an Artin group, and investigate properties of the subgraph spanned by elements of the Artin monoid. Our final results show that for a finite type Artin group, the monoid Cayley graph embeds isometrically, but not quasi-convexly, into the group Cayley graph.
Let W be a Weyl group whose type is a simply laced Dynkin diagram. On several W-orbits of sets of mutually commuting reflections, a poset is described which plays a role in linear representatons of the corresponding Artin group A. The poset generalizes many properties of the usual order on positive roots of W given by height. In this paper, a linear representation of the positive monoid of A is defined by use of the poset.