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Nov 20, 2014 at 11:40 comment added Sean Eberhard @LevGlebsky Nevermind, we figured it out. In fact on any finite magma there exists an idempotent measure by Brouwer's fixed point theorem.
Nov 20, 2014 at 0:53 comment added Sean Eberhard @LevGlebsky Looks legitimate to me. What's the problem?
Dec 1, 2012 at 0:42 comment added Lev Glebsky I am wrong as it was explained to mi by Justin.
Nov 23, 2012 at 23:53 comment added Lev Glebsky It looks like $\mu^\mu=\mu$ is impossible for the free 1-generated magma $\mathbb T$. Indeed, suppose that such a measure $\mu$ exists. Then for any homomorphic image of $\mathbb T$ should exists an idempotent measure. Using SAGE I was found that magma $\{0,1,2,3\}$ with multiplication matrix $$ \left(\begin{array}{rrrr} 1 & 3 & 2 & 2 \\ 1 & 2 & 1 & 3 \\ 0 & 2 & 3 & 3 \\ 0 & 2 & 1 & 2 \end{array}\right) $$ has no idempotent measure. It is also generated by $0$: $0^0=1$, $1^0=3$, $3^0=2$. So, $\mathbb T$ does not have an idempotent measure. Am I right?
Oct 4, 2012 at 13:59 comment added tweetie-bird @Justin: good luck with your work on this difficult question!
Oct 4, 2012 at 13:16 history edited Justin Moore CC BY-SA 3.0
minor changes to the wording
Oct 4, 2012 at 1:49 history edited Justin Moore CC BY-SA 3.0
updated to reflect my erroneous proof
Sep 8, 2012 at 21:14 comment added Andrés E. Caicedo math.utoronto.ca/cms/toronto-set-theory/2012-09-07
Feb 4, 2011 at 1:22 history edited Justin Moore CC BY-SA 2.5
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Jan 31, 2011 at 16:24 vote accept ADL
Jan 28, 2011 at 17:34 history edited Justin Moore CC BY-SA 2.5
Added an update which addresses Shavgulidze's new ArXiv post.
Nov 24, 2010 at 0:56 history edited Justin Moore CC BY-SA 2.5
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Nov 13, 2010 at 5:54 comment added Yemon Choi For me at least this information is most welcome (I had at one point tried to start working through Shavgulidze's paper, but found the style and the level too much for me). So thanks for sharing this.
Nov 13, 2010 at 2:47 history answered Justin Moore CC BY-SA 2.5