Chains and anti-chains in the lattice of epigroup varieties

Abstract

Let $\mathcal E_n$ be the variety of all epigroups of index $\le n$. We prove that, for an arbitrary natural number $n$, the interval $[\mathcal E_n, \mathcal E_{n+1}]$ of the lattice of epigroup varieties contains a chain isomorphic to the chain of real numbers with the usual order and an anti-chain of the cardinality continuum.