Tied monoids

We construct certain monoids, called tied monoids. These monoids result to be semidirect products finitely presented and commonly built from braid groups and their relatives acting on monoids of set partitions. The nature of our monoids indicate that they should give origin to new knot algebras; indeed, our tied monoids include the tied braid monoid and the tied singular braid monoid, which were used, respectively, to construct new polynomial invariants for classical links and singular links. Consequently, we provide a mechanism to attach an algebra to each tied monoid; this mechanism not only captures known generalizations of the bt-algebra, but also produces possible new knot algebras. To build the tied monoids it is necessary to have presentations of set partition monoids of types A, B and D, among others. For type A we use a presentation due to FitzGerald and for the other type it was necessary to built them.

     

The radical-annihilator monoid of a ring

Kuratowski’s closure-complement problem gives rise to a monoid generated by the closure and complement operations. Consideration of this monoid yielded an interesting classification of topological spaces, and subsequent decades saw further exploration using other set operations. This article is an exploration of a natural analogue in ring theory: a monoid produced by “radical” and “annihilator” maps on the set of ideals of a ring. We succeed in characterizing semiprime rings and commutative dual rings by their radical-annihilator monoids, and we determine the monoids for commutative local zero-dimensional (in the sense of Krull dimension) rings.     

Equalizers and kernels in categories of monoids

In dealing with monoids, the natural notion of kernel of a monoid morphism \(f:M\rightarrow N\) between two monoids M and N is that of the congruence \(\sim _f\) on M defined, for every \(m,m'\in M\), by \(m\sim _fm'\) if \(f(m)=f(m')\). In this paper, we study kernels and equalizers of monoid morphisms in the categorical sense. We consider the case of the categories of all monoids, commutative monoids, cancellative commutative monoids, reduced Krull monoids, inverse monoids and free monoids. In all these categories, the kernel of \(f:M\rightarrow N\) is simply the embedding of the submonoid \(f^{-1}(1_N)\) into M, but a complete characterization of kernels in these categories is not always trivial, and leads to interesting related notions.     

Brauer and Jones tied monoids

We introduce a ramified monoid, attached to each Brauer–type monoid, that is, to the symmetric group, to the Jones and Brauer monoids among others. Ramified monoids correspond to a class of tied monoids arising from knot theory and are interesting in themselves. The ramified monoid attached to the symmetric group is the Coxeter-like version of the so–called tied braid monoid. We give a presentation of the ramified monoid attached to the Brauer monoid. Also, we introduce and study two tied-like monoids that cannot be described as ramified monoids. However, these monoids can also be regarded as tied versions of the Jones and Brauer monoids.     

Atomicity and boundedness of monotone Puiseux monoids

In this paper, we study the atomic structure of Puiseux monoids generated by monotone sequences. To understand this atomic structure, it is often useful to know whether the monoid has a bounded generating set. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the atomicity and boundedness to be transferred from a monotone Puiseux monoid to all its submonoids. Finally, we present two special subfamilies of monotone Puiseux monoids and fully classify their atomic structure.     

The Extraction Degree of Cale Monoids

The extraction degree measures commonality of factorization between any two elements in a commutative, cancellative monoid. Additional properties of the extraction degree are developed for monoids possessing a Cale basis. For block monoids, the complete set of extraction degrees is calculated between any two elements, between any two irreducible elements, and between any irreducible element and any general element.     

Endomorphism monoids of acts over monoids

In this paper we investigate under which conditions a monoid R is defined by the endomorphism monoid of an act over R. More precisely, we ask when an isomorphism between two such endomorphism monoids over monoids R₁ and R₂ is induced by a semilinear isomorphism. The question is considered also for ordered and for topological monoids. On the way we characterize monoids over which all projective acts are free. An abstract of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the Conference on Semigroups, Szeged 1972.     

Fundamental groups,inverse schützenberger automata,and monoid presentations

This paper gives decidable conditions for when a finitely generated subgroup of a free group is the fundamental group of a Schützenberger automaton corresponding to a monoid presentation of an inverse monoid. Also, generalizations are given to specific types of inverse monoids as well as to monoids which are "nearly inverse." This result has applications to computing membership for inverse monoids in a Mal'cev product of the pseudovariety of semilattices with a pseudovariety of groups.

This paper also shows that there is a bijection between strongly connected inverse automata and subgroups of a free group, generated by positive words. Hence, we also obtain that it is decidable whether a finite strongly connected inverse automaton is a Schützenberger automaton corresponding to a monoid presentation of an inverse monoid. Again, we have generalizations to other types of inverse monoids and to "nearly inverse" monoids. We show that it is undecidable whether a finite strongly connected inverse automaton is a Schützenberger automaton of a monoid presentation of anE-unitary inverse monoid.     

Sets of arithmetical invariants in transfer Krull monoids

Transfer Krull monoids are a recently introduced class of monoids and include the multiplicative monoids of all commutative Krull domains as well as of wide classes of non-commutative Dedekind domains. We show that transfer Krull monoids are fully elastic (i.e., every rational number between 1 and the elasticity of the monoid can be realized as the elasticity of an element). In commutative Krull monoids which have sufficiently many prime divisors in all classes of their class group, the set of catenary degrees and the set of tame degrees are intervals. Without the assumption on the distribution of prime divisors, arbitrary finite sets can be realized as sets of catenary degrees and as sets of tame degrees.     

Möbius inversion formula for monoids with zero

The Möbius inversion formula, introduced during the 19th century in number theory, was generalized to a wide class of monoids called locally finite such as the free partially commutative, plactic and hypoplactic monoids for instance. In this contribution are developed and used some topological and algebraic notions for monoids with zero, similar to ordinary objects such as the (total) algebra of a monoid, the augmentation ideal or the star operation on proper series. The main concern is to extend the study of the Möbius function to some monoids with zero, i.e., with an absorbing element, in particular the so-called Rees quotients of locally finite monoids. Some relations between the Möbius functions of a monoid and its Rees quotient are also provided.     

On Presentations of Bruck–Reilly Extensions

We first consider the class of monoids in which every left invertible element is also right invertible, and prove that if a monoid belonging to this class admits a finitely presented Bruck–Reilly extension then it is finitely generated. This allow us to obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the Bruck–Reilly extensions of this class of monoids to be finitely presented. We then prove that thes 𝒟-classes of a Bruck–Reilly extension of a Clifford monoid are Bruck–Reilly extensions of groups. This yields another necessary and sufficient condition for these Bruck–Reilly extensions to be finitely generated and presented. Finally, we show that a Bruck–Reilly extension of a Clifford monoid is finitely presented as an inverse monoid if and only if it is finitely presented as a monoid, and that this property cannot be generalized to Bruck–Reilly extensions of arbitrary inverse monoids.     

Multiplier Hopf Monoids

The notion of multiplier Hopf monoid in any braided monoidal category is introduced as a multiplier bimonoid whose constituent fusion morphisms are isomorphisms. In the category of vector spaces over the complex numbers, Van Daele’s definition of multiplier Hopf algebra is re-obtained. It is shown that the key features of multiplier Hopf algebras (over fields) remain valid in this more general context. Namely, for a multiplier Hopf monoid A, the existence of a unique antipode is proved — in an appropriate, multiplier-valued sense — which is shown to be a morphism of multiplier bimonoids from a twisted version of A to A. For a regular multiplier Hopf monoid (whose twisted versions are multiplier Hopf monoids as well) the antipode is proved to factorize through a proper automorphism of the object A. Under mild further assumptions, duals in the base category are shown to lift to the monoidal categories of modules and of comodules over a regular multiplier Hopf monoid. Finally, the so-called Fundamental Theorem of Hopf modules is proved — which states an equivalence between the base category and the category of Hopf modules over a multiplier Hopf monoid.     

Algebraic monoids and group embeddings

We study the geometry of algebraic monoids. We prove that the group of invertible elements of an irreducible algebraic monoid is an algebraic group, open in the monoid. Moreover, if this group is reductive, then the monoid is affine. We then give a combinatorial classification of reductive monoids by means of the theory of spherical varieties. Partially supported by a CONICYT's grant and the Universidad de la República (Uruguay)     

On sofic monoids

We investigate a notion of soficity for monoids. A group is sofic as a group if and only if it is sofic as a monoid. All finite monoids, all commutative monoids, all free monoids, all cancellative one-sided amenable monoids, all multiplicative monoids of matrices over a field, and all monoids obtained by adjoining an identity element to a semigroup are sofic. On the other hand, although the question of the existence of a non-sofic group remains open, we prove that the bicyclic monoid is not sofic. This shows that there exist finitely presented amenable inverse monoids that are non-sofic.     

Endomorphism monoids of free acts and O-wreath products of monoids

Monoids and acts which may have zero elements are considered. In Section 1 we construct a O-wreath product of monoids. In 2 we prove the theorem that the endomorphism monoid of a free act over a monoid with zero can be represented as a O-wreath product. Considering monoids with tero we are interested in their annihilator properties. In 3 we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a O-wreath product of monoids to be a right (left) Baer (Rickart) monoid. In 4 we obtain as a consequence corresponding conditions for the endomorphism monoid of a free act over a monoid with zero.     

On rigid monoids and 2-fir monoid rings

It is proved that the universal group of a torsion free rigid monoid is torsion free. As a consequence, a new condition on a monoid M for the monoid ring R[M] to be a 2-fir is given. Furthermore, the monoids between a rigid monoid and its universal group are studied.     

The Natural Embedding of Positive Singular Artin Monoids

We explore some combinatorial properties of singular Artin monoids and invoke them to prove that a positive singular Artin monoid of arbitrary Coxeter type necessarily injects into the corresponding singular Artin monoid. This is an extension of L. Pari' result that positive Artin monoids embed in the correpsonding Artin groups: Adjoining inverses of the generators does not produce any new identities between words that do not involve those inverses.