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 - http://www.worldscinet.com/ijac/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218196709005342 SN - 0218-1967 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Denecke, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Wismath, Shelly T1 - Solid varieties of semigroups Y1 - 1994 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Denecke, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Wismath, Shelly T1 - The monoid of hypersubstitutions of type (2) Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wismath, Shelly A1 - Koppitz, Jörg A1 - Denecke, Klaus-Dieter T1 - Maps between M-solid varieties of emigroups Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Denecke, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Koppitz, Jörg A1 - Wismath, Shelly T1 - The semantical hyperunification problem Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Denecke, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Wismath, Shelly T1 - M-solidity testing systems Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Denecke, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Koppitz, Jörg A1 - Wismath, Shelly T1 - Solid Varietie of Arbitrary Type Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Denecke, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Wismath, Shelly T1 - Valuations of Terms N2 - Let tau be a type of algebras. There are several commonly used measurements of the complexity of terms of type tau, including the depth or height of a term and the number of variable symbols appearing in a term. In this paper we formalize these various measurements, by defining a complexity or valuation mapping on terms. A valuation of terms is thus a mapping from the absolutely free term algebra of type tau into another algebra of the same type on which an order relation is defined. We develop the interconnections between such term valuations and the equational theory of Universal Algebra. The collection of all varieties of a given type forms a complete lattice which is very complex and difficult to study; valuations of terms offer a new method to study complete sublattices of this lattice Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Denecke, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Jampachon, Prakit A1 - Wismath, Shelly T1 - Clones of n-ary algebras Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Denecke, Klaus-Dieter A1 - Wismath, Shelly T1 - Complexity of Terms, Composition and Hypersubstitution Y1 - 2003 ER -