Proper varieties of distributive l-pregroups are periodic

Abstract

We show that every proper variety of distributive $\ell$-pregroups is periodic; as a result, the subvariety lattice of the variety of distributive $\ell$-pregroups decomposes into a disjoint union of bounded intervals each consisting of all properly $n$-periodic varieties, for different $n \in \mathbb{Z}^+$. On the way, we study non-periodic (one-generated) subalgebras of $\mathbf{F}(\mathbb{Z})$ and show that they either contain a non-periodic idempotent or they contain idempotents of arbitrary big periodicity. The same results holds for non-periodic one-generated subalgebras of $\mathbf{F}(\mathbf{J} \overrightarrow{\times} \mathbb{Z})$, where $\mathbf{J}$ is a chain, generated by a composite element and the resulting idempotents can be taken to be local in the associated wreath product.