Small Semigroups Generating Varieties with Continuum Many Subvarieties

摘要

The smallest finitely based semigroup currently known to generate a variety with continuum many subvarieties is of order seven. The present article introduces a new example of order six and comments on the possibility of the existence of a smaller example. It is shown that if such an example exists, then up to isomorphism and anti-isomorphism, it must be a unique monoid of order five.