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Mal'cev clones over a three-element set up to minor-equivalence

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Abstract

We classify all Mal'cev clones over a three-element set up to minion homomorphisms. This is another step toward the complete classification of three-element relational structures up to pp-constructability. We furthermore provide an alternative proof of Bulatov's result that all Mal'cev clones over a three-element set have an at most 4-ary relational basis.

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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexInternational Journal of Algebra and ComputationPublished 2026-10-02

Authors: Michael Kompatscher, Bernardo Rossi, Albert Vucaj