TY - JOUR A1 - Denecke, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Wismath, Shelly T1 - The dimension of a variety and the kernel of a hypersubstitution N2 - The dimension of a variety V of algebras of a given type was introduced by E. Graczynska and D. Schweigert in [7] as the cardinality of the set of all derived varieties of V which are properly contained in V. In this paper, we characterize all solid varieties of dimensions 0, 1, and 2; prove that the dimension of a variety of finite type is at most N-0; give an example of a variety which has infinite dimension; and show that for every n is an element of N there is a variety with dimension n. Finally, we show that the dimension of a variety is related to the concept of the semantical kernel of a hypersubstitution and apply this connection to calculate the dimension of the class of all algebras of type tau = (n). Y1 - 2009 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31618 UR - http://www.worldscinet.com/ijac/ SN - 0218-1967 ER -