Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society

Research Article

Annihilator graphs and semigroups of matrices

S. J. Quinna1

a1 Menzies Research Institute University of Tasmania, Private Bag 23, Hobart Tas 7001 Australia, e-mail: Stephen.Quinn@utas.edu.au

Matrices provide essential tools in many branches of mathematics and matrix semigroups have applications in various areas. In this paper we give a complete description of all infinite matrix semigroups satisfying a certain combinatorial property defined in terms of annihilator graphs.

(Received September 03 2003)