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Subdirectly irreducible bands which generate all proper subvarieties of bands (idempotent semigroups) were exhibited in [7]. In this paper a very general construction is presented which can be used to produce subdirectly irreducible bands which generate the variety of bands.
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Dedicated to E. S. Ljapin on his 60th birthday
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Fennemore, C.F. A subdirectly irreducible band accepting a = a. Semigroup Forum 9, 271–274 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02194856
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