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Gerhard Paseman
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An easy observation: such a structure with a finite nonempty head is not directly decomposable.

Let sigma not be onto. That part of the base set outside the range of sigma I call the head. Then invertibility implies the base set is infinite. If one has two structures with one having a nonempty head, their product will have a nonempty head that is infinite. Therefore any such structure with a finite nonempty head is not directly decomposable. The free finitely generated structures in this variety gives a class of such examples.

Gerhard "Nothing Up My Sleeve... Presto!" Paseman, 2020.05.19.

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