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In this paper we determine those locally finite varieties that generate decidable discriminator varieties when augmented by a ternary discriminator term.

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  1. M. A. Valeriote & R. Willard

    Present address: Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, L8S 4K1, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    M. A. Valeriote & R. Willard

  2. Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213-3890, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    M. A. Valeriote & R. Willard

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Dedicated to Bjarni Jonsson on the occasion of his 70th birthday

The first author gratefully acknowledges the support of NSERC.

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Valeriote, M.A., Willard, R. Discriminating varieties. Algebra Universalis 32, 177–188 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01191537

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