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ON WEAKLY AMPLE SEMIGROUPS

Part of: Semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2014

MARIO PETRICH*
Affiliation:
21420 Bol, Brač, Croatia
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Abstract

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Let $\def \xmlpi #1{}\def \mathsfbi #1{\boldsymbol {\mathsf {#1}}}\let \le =\leqslant \let \leq =\leqslant \let \ge =\geqslant \let \geq =\geqslant \def \Pr {\mathit {Pr}}\def \Fr {\mathit {Fr}}\def \Rey {\mathit {Re}}S$ be a semigroup. Elements $a,b$ of $S$ are $\widetilde{\mathscr{R}}$-related if they have the same idempotent left identities. Then $S$ is weakly left ample if (1) idempotents of $S$ commute, (2) $\widetilde{\mathscr{R}}$ is a left congruence, (3) for any $a \in S$, $a$ is $\widetilde{\mathscr{R}}$-related to a (unique) idempotent, say $a^+$, and (4) for any element $a$ and idempotent $e$ of $S$, $ae=(ae)^+a$. Elements $a,b$ of $S$ are $\mathscr{R}^*$-related if, for any $x,y \in S^1$, $xa=ya$ if and only if $xb=yb$. Then $S$ is left ample if it satisfies (1), (3) and (4) relative to $\mathscr{R}^*$ instead of $\widetilde{\mathscr{R}}$. Further, $S$ is (weakly) ample if it is both (weakly) left and right ample. We establish several characterizations of these classes of semigroups. For weakly left ample ones we provide a construction of all such semigroups with zero all of whose nonzero idempotents are primitive. Among characterizations of weakly ample semigroups figure (strong) semilattices of unipotent monoids, and among those for ample semigroups, (strong) semilattices of cancellative monoids. This describes the structure of these two classes of semigroups in an optimal way, while, for the ‘one-sided’ case, the problem of structure remains open.

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Copyright © 2014 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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