Abstract
The distance of an operation from being associative can be ``measured'' by its associative spectrum, an appropriate sequence of positive integers. Associative spectra were introduced in a publication by B. Csákány and T. Waldhauser in 2000 for binary operations. We generalize this concept to $2 p$-ary operations, interpret associative spectra in terms of equational theories, and use this interpretation to find a characterization of fine spectra, to construct polynomial associative spectra, and to show that there are continuously many different spectra. Furthermore, an equivalent representation of bracketings is studied.
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