Finite union of commutative power joined semigroups

A commutative semigroup is called power joined if for every element a, b there are positive integers m, n such that a^m=bⁿ. A commutative power joined semigroup is archimedean (p. 131, 3]) and cannot be decomposed into the disjoint union of more than one subsemigroup. Every commutative semigroup is uniquely decomposed into the disjoint union of power joined subsemigroups which are called the power joined components. This paper determines the structure of commutative archimedean semigroups which have a finite number of power joined components. The number of power joined components of commutative archimedean semigroups is one or three or infinity. The research for this paper was supported in part by NSF Grant GP-11964.