EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
A Gelfand-Dorfman algebra (GD-algebra) is said to be special if it can be embedded into a differential Poisson algebra. In this paper, we prove that the class of all special GD-algebras is closed with respect to homomorphisms and thus forms a variety. We describe a technique for finding potentially all special identities of GD-algebras and derive two known special identities of degree 4 in this way. By computing the Grobner basis for the corresponding shuffle operad, we show that these two identities imply all special ones up to degree 5.