Embedding Into Almost Left Factorizable Restriction Semigroups

The notion of almost left factorizability and the results on almost left factorizable weakly ample semigroups, due to Gomes and the author, are adapted for restriction semigroups. The main result of the paper is that each restriction semigroup is embeddable into an almost left factorizable restriction semigroup. This generalizes a fundamental result of the structure theory of inverse semigroups.     

The Generalized Prefix Expansion of a Weakly Left Ample Semigroup

The generalized prefix expansion of inverse semigroups, presented by Lawson, Margolis and Steinberg, is suitably modified to define an expansion for weakly left ample semigroups. We consider the class of FA-morphisms between weakly left ample semigroups and show that this expansion gives rise to a universal FA-morphism onto a weakly left ample semigroup. The methods used are necessarily different from the ones applied in the inverse case. We show how the inverse case can be deduced from this more general situation.     

Finite Proper covers in a class of finite semigroups with commuting idempotents

Weakly left ample semigroups are a class of semigroups that are (2,1)-subalgebras of semigroups of partial transformations, where the unary operation takes a transformation α to the identity map in the domain of α. It is known that there is a class of proper weakly left ample semigroups whose structure is determined by unipotent monoids acting on semilattices or categories. In this paper we show that for every finite weakly left ample semigroup S, there is a finite proper weakly left ample semigroup ? and an onto morphism from ? to S which separates idempotents. In fact, ? is actually a (2,1)-subalgebra of a symmetric inverse semigroup, that is, it is a left ample semigroup (formerly, left type A).     

Proper extensions of weakly left ample semigroups

Summary We consider proper (idempotent pure) extensions of weakly left ample semigroups. These are extensions that are injective in each <InlineEquation ID=IE"1"><EquationSource Format="TEX"><![CDATA[<InlineEquation ID=IE"2"><EquationSource Format="TEX"><![CDATA[$]]></EquationSource></InlineEquation>]]></EquationSource></InlineEquation>\widetilde{\mathcal{R}}$-class. A graph expansion of a weakly left ample semigroup S is shown to be such an extension of S. Using semigroupoids acted upon by weakly left ample semigroups, we prove that any weakly left ample semigroup which is a proper extension of another such semigroup T is (2,1)-embeddable into a λ-semidirect product of a semilattice by T. Some known results, by O'Carroll, for idempotent pure extensions of inverse semigroups and, by Billhardt, for proper extensions of left ample semigroups follow from this more general situation.     

Finite Proper Covers in a Class of Finite Semigroups with Commuting Idempotents

   Abstract. Weakly left ample semigroups are a class of semigroups that are (2,1) -subalgebras of semigroups of partial transformations, where the unary operation takes a transformation α to the identity map in the domain of α . It is known that there is a class of proper weakly left ample semigroups whose structure is determined by unipotent monoids acting on semilattices or categories. In this paper we show that for every finite weakly left ample semigroup S , there is a finite proper weakly left ample semigroup

Proper two-sided restriction semigroups and partial actions

Two-sided restriction semigroups and their handed versions arise from a number of sources. Attracting a deal of recent interest, they appear under a plethora of names in the literature. The class of left restriction semigroups essentially provides an axiomatisation of semigroups of partial mappings. It is known that this class admits proper covers, and that proper left restriction semigroups can be described by monoids acting on the left of semilattices. Any proper left restriction semigroup embeds into a semidirect product of a semilattice by a monoid, and moreover, this result is known in the wider context of left restriction categories. The dual results hold for right restriction semigroups.What can we say about two-sided restriction semigroups, hereafter referred to simply as restriction semigroups? Certainly, proper covers are known to exist. Here we consider whether proper restriction semigroups can be described in a natural way by monoids acting on both sides of a semilattice.It transpires that to obtain the full class of proper restriction semigroups, we must use partial actions of monoids, thus recovering results of Petrich and Reilly and of Lawson for inverse semigroups and ample semigroups, respectively. We also describe the class of proper restriction semigroups such that the partial actions can be mutually extendable to actions. Proper inverse and free restriction semigroups (which are proper) have this form, but we give examples of proper restriction semigroups which do not.     

Proper Covers for Left Ample Semigroups

A left ample semigroup is a semigroup with a unary operation ⁺ which has a (2,1)-algebra embedding into a symmetric inverse monoid I(X), the operation ⁺ on I(X) being defined by α⁺ = αα^-1. We consider some analogues for left ample semigroups of results on E-unitary covers of inverse semigroups due to McAlister and Reilly. The analogue of an E-unitary cover is a proper cover, and we discuss the construction of proper covers in terms of relational homomorphisms, and of dual prehomomorphisms. We observe that our construction gives an E-dense proper cover for an E-dense left ample semigroup. We also consider proper covers constructed from strict embeddings into factorisable left ample monoids. In contrast to the inverse case, not all proper covers arise in this way. However, in the E-dense case, we characterise those E-dense proper covers which can be constructed from such embeddings.     

Some Characterizations of Left Weakly Regular Ordered Semigroups

In this paper, the notion of left weakly regular ordered semigroups is introduced. Furthermore, left weakly regular ordered semigroups are characterized by the properties of their left ideals, right ideals and (generalized) bi-ideals, and also by the properties of their fuzzy left ideals, fuzzy right ideals and fuzzy (generalized) bi-ideals.     

Radical of weakly ordered semigroup algebras

We define the notion of weakly ordered semigroups. For this class of semigroups, we compute the radical of the semigroup algebras. This generalizes some results on left regular bands and on 0- Hecke algebras.     

Semigroups which contain magnifying elements are factorizable

A semigroup S is factorizable if it contains two proper subsemigroups A and B such that S = AB. An element a of a semigroup 5 is a left ( resp. right) magnifier if there exists a proper subset M of S such that S = aM (resp. S - Ma).

In this paper we prove that every semigroup containing magnifying elements is factorizable. Thus we solve a problem raised up by F. Catino and F. Migliorini in [2], namely to find necessary and sufficient conditions in order that a semigroup with magnifying elements be factorizable. Partial answers to this problem have been obtained by K. Tolo ([14]), F. Catino and F. Migliorini ([2]), for semigroups with left magnifiers and which are regular or have left units or right magnifiers, by V. M. Klimov ([9]), for Baer-Levi and Croisot-Teissier semigroups, and by M. Gutan ([4]), for right cancellative, right simple, idempotent free semigroups.     

Even Covers for Left Ample Semigroups

In this paper we describe the covers of a left ample semigroup that arise from strict (2,1)-embeddings in left factorizable left ample monoids.     

Proper restriction semigroups – semidirect products and W-products

Fountain and Gomes [4] have shown that any proper left ample semigroup embeds into a so-called W-product, which is a subsemigroup of a reverse semidirect product ${T\ltimes {\mathcal {Y}}}$ of a semilattice ${\mathcal {Y}}$ by a monoid T, where the action of T on  ${\mathcal {Y}}$ is injective with images of the action being order ideals of  ${\mathcal {Y}}$ . Proper left ample semigroups are proper left restriction, the latter forming a much wider class. The aim of this paper is to give necessary and sufficient conditions on a proper left restriction semigroup such that it embeds into a W-product. We also examine the complex relationship between W-products and semidirect products of the form ${{\mathcal {Y}}\rtimes T}$ .     

Algebras of Ehresmann semigroups and categories

E-Ehresmann semigroups are a commonly studied generalization of inverse semigroups. They are closely related to Ehresmann categories in the same way that inverse semigroups are related to inductive groupoids. We prove that under some finiteness condition, the semigroup algebra of an E-Ehresmann semigroup is isomorphic to the category algebra of the corresponding Ehresmann category. This generalizes a result of Steinberg who proved this isomorphism for inverse semigroups and inductive groupoids and a result of Guo and Chen who proved it for ample semigroups. We also characterize E-Ehresmann semigroups whose corresponding Ehresmann category is an EI-category and give some natural examples.     

Graph expansions of unipotent monoids

Margolis and Meakin use the Cayley graph of a group presentation to construct E-unitary inverse monoids [11]. This is the technique we refer to as graph expansion. In this paper we consider graph expansions of unipotent monoids, where a monoid is unipotent if it contains a unique idempotent. The monoids arising in this way are E-unitary and belong to the quasivariety of weakly left ample monoids. We give a number of examples of such monoids. We show that the least unipotent congruence on a weakly left ample monoid is given by the same formula as that for the least group congruence on an inverse monoid and we investigate the notion of proper for weakly left ample monoids.

Using graph expansions we construct a functor F^e from the category U of unipotent monoids to the category PWLA of proper weakly left ample monoids. The functor F^e is an expansion in the sense of Birget and Rhodes [2]. If we equip proper weakly left ample monoids with an extra unary operation and denote the corresponding category by PWLA ⁰ then regarded as a functor U→PWLA ⁰ F^e is a left adjoint of the functor F^σ : PWLA ⁰ → U that takes a proper weakly left ample monoid to its greatest unipotent image.

Our main result uses the covering theorem of [8] to construct free weakly left ample monoids.     

Semilattice indecomposable finite semigroups with large subsemilattices

We show that if Y is a subsemilattice of a finite semilattice indecomposable semigroup S then \({|Y|\leq 2\left\lfloor \frac{|S|-1}{4}\right\rfloor+1}\). We also characterize finite semilattice indecomposable semigroups S which contain a subsemilattice Y with \({|S|=4k+1}\) and \({|Y|=2\left\lfloor \frac{|S|-1}{4} \right\rfloor+1=2k+1}\). They are special inverse semigroups. Our investigation is based on our new result proved in this paper which characterizes finite semilattice indecomposable semigroups with a zero by using only the properties of its semigroup algebra.     

Fundamental Ehresmann semigroups

\noindent The celebrated construction by Munn of a fundamental inverse semigroup T _E from a semilattice E provides an important tool in the study of inverse semigroups. We present here a semigroup C _E that plays the T _E role for Ehresmann semigroups. Inverse semigroups are Ehresmann, as are those that are adequate, weakly ample or weakly hedged. We describe explicitly the semigroups C _E for some specific semilattices E and extract information relating to the corresponding classes of Ehresmann semigroups. October 13, 1999     

Context equivalence of semigroups

Two semigroups are called strongly Morita equivalent if they are contained in a Morita context with unitary bi-acts and surjective mappings. We consider the notion of context equivalence which is obtained from the notion of strong Morita equivalence by dropping the requirement of unitariness. We show that context equivalence is an equivalence relation on the class of factorisable semigroups and describe factorisable semigroups that are context equivalent to monoids or groups, and semigroups with weak local units that are context equivalent to inverse semigroups, orthodox semigroups or semilattices.     

Abundant Left C-lpp Proper Semigroups

The aim of this paper is to study a class of left abundant semigroups, so-called abundant left C-lpp proper semigroups including left type A proper semigroups and right inverse proper semigroups as its subclasses. A structure theorem similar to McAlisters for inverse proper semigroups is obtained. As its application, it is verified that any abundant left C-lpp proper semigroup can be embedded into a semidirect product of a left regular band by a cancellative monoid.AMS Subject Classification (1991): 20M10Suppoted by the Foundation of Yunnan University and also by the Director Foundation of Yunnan Province.