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We show that any clone without virtual constants is isomorphic to the centralizer clone of a unary universal algebra, and that adding one unary relation to these unary algebras produces algebraic systems representing any clone.
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Presented by A. Szendrei.
To Václav Koubek on his 60th birthday
The first author gratefully acknowledges the support of MSM 0021620839, a project of the Czech Ministry of Education, and of the grant 201/06/0664 by the Grant Agency of Czech Republic. The second author gratefully acknowledges the support provided by the NSERC of Canada.
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Trnková, V., Sichler, J. All clones are centralizer clones. Algebra Univers. 61, 77 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-009-0004-4
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