E-varieties of regular semigroups,relatively bifree objects and fully invariant congruences

Analogous to the concept of a free object on a setX in a variety of algebras is the notion of a bifree object onX in an e-variety of regular semigroups. If an e-variety contains a bifree object onX, then a homomorphic image of that bifree object is itself bifree onX in some e-variety if and only if the corresponding congruence is fully invariant. Furthermore, the lattice of e-subvarieties of any locally inverse or E-solid e-variety ε is antiisomorphic with the lattice of all fully invariant congruences on the bifree object on a countably infinite setX in ε. We give a Birkhoff-type theorem for classes of locally inverse or E-solid semigroups, and we give an intrinsic test for whether or not a regular semigroup is bifree onX in the e-variety it generates.     

The variety of unary semigroups with associate inverse subsemigroup

In Billhardt et al. (Semigroup Forum 79:101–118, 2009) the authors introduced the notion of an associate inverse subsemigroup of a regular semigroup, extending the concept of an associate subgroup of a regular semigroup, first presented in Blyth et al. (Glasg. Math. J. 36:163–171, 1994). The semigroups of these two classes admit axiomatic characterisations in terms of unary operations and can, therefore, be considered as unary semigroups. In this paper we introduce the notion of unary semigroup with associate inverse subsemigroup [with associate subgroup] and show that the classes of such unary semigroups form varieties.     

On left regular and intra-regular ordered semigroups

We study the decomposition of left regular ordered semigroups into left regular components and the decomposition of intra-regular ordered semigroups into simple or intra-regular components, adding some additional information to the results considered in [KEHAYOPULU, N.: On left regular ordered semigroups, Math. Japon. 35 (1990), 1057–1060] and [KEHAYOPULU, N.: On intra-regular ordered semigroups, Semigroup Forum 46 (1993), 271–278]. We prove that an ordered semigroup S is left regular if and only if it is a semilattice (or a complete semilattice) of left regular semigroups, equivalently, it is a union of left regular subsemigroups of S. Moreover, S is left regular if and only if it is a union of pairwise disjoint left regular subsemigroups of S. The right analog also holds. The same result is true if we replace the words “left regular” by “intraregular”. Moreover, an ordered semigroup is intra-regular if and only if it is a semilattice (or a complete semilattice) of simple semigroups. On the other hand, if an ordered semigroup is a semilattice (or a complete semilattice) of left simple semigroups, then it is left regular, but the converse statement does not hold in general. Illustrative examples are given.     

On Inverse Transversals of Ordered Regular Semigroups

We first consider an ordered regular semigroup S in which every element has a biggest inverse and determine necessary and sufficient conditions for the subset S ^○ of biggest inverses to be an inverse transversal of S. Such an inverse transversal is necessarily weakly multiplicative. We then investigate principally ordered regular semigroups S with the property that S ^○ is an inverse transversal. In such a semigroup we determine precisely when the set S ^☆ of biggest pre-inverses is a subsemigroup and show that in this case S ^☆ is itself an inverse transversal of a subsemigroup of S. The ordered regular semigroup of 2 × 2 boolean matrices provides an informative illustrative example. The structure of S, when S ^☆ is a group, is also described.     

Biordered Sets of Regular Semigroups with Inverse Transversals1

In a regular semigroup S, an inverse subsemigroup S° of S is called an inverse transversal of S if S° contains a unique inverse x° of each element x of S. An inverse transversal S° of S is called a Q-inverse transversal of S if S° is a quasi-ideal of S.If S is a regular semigroup with set of idempotents E then E is a biordered set. T.E. Hall obtained a fundamental regular semigroup T_E from the subsemigroup E which is generated by the set of idempotents of a regular semigroup. K.S.S. Nambooripad constructed a fundamental regular semigroup by a regular biordered set abstractly. In this paper, we discuss the properties of the biordered sets of regular semigroups with inverse transversals. This kind of regular biordered sets is called IT-biordered sets. We also describe the fundamental regular semigroup T_E when E is an IT-biordered set. In the sequel, we give the construction of an IT-biordered set by a left regular IT-biordered set and a right regular IT-biordered set.This project has been supported by the Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, PR China     

A Representation for $F$-Regular Semigroups

A regular (inverse) semigroup S is called F-regular (F-inverse), if each class of the least group congruence _S contains a greatest element with respect to the natural partial order on S. Such a semigroup is necessarily an E-unitary regular (hence orthodox) monoid. We show that each F-regular semigroup S is isomorphic to a well determined subsemigroup of a semidirect product of a band X by S/_S, where X belongs to the band variety, generated by the band of idempotents E_S of S. Our main result, Theorem 4, is the regular version of the corresponding fact for inverse semigroups, and might be useful to generalize further features of the theory of F-inverse semigroups to the F-regular case.     

A class of unary semigroups admitting a Rees matrix representation

In Billhardt et al. (Semigroup Forum 79:101–118, 2009) the authors introduced the notion of an associate inverse subsemigroup of a regular semigroup, extending the concept of an associate subgroup of a regular semigroup, first presented in Blyth et al. (Glasgow Math. J. 36:163–171, 1994). The main result of the present paper, Theorem 2.15, establishes that a regular semigroup S with an associate inverse subsemigroup S ^? satisfies three simple identities if and only if it is isomorphic to a generalised Rees matrix semigroup M(T;A,B;P), where T is a Clifford semigroup, A and B are bands, with common associate inverse subsemigroup E(T) satisfying the referred identities, and P is a sandwich matrix satisfying some natural conditions. If T is a group and A, B are left and right zero semigroups, respectively, then the structure described provides a usual Rees matrix semigroup with normalised sandwich matrix, thus generalising the Rees matrix representation for completely simple semigroups.     

ON THE STRUCTURE OF REGULAR CRYPTO SEMIGROUPS

Superabundant semigroups are generalizations of completely regular semigroups written the class of abundant semigroups. It has been shown by Fountain that an abundant semigroup is superabundant if and only if it is a semilattice of completely J ^*-simple semigroups. Reilly and Petrich called a semigroup S cryptic if the Green's relation H is a congruence on S. In this paper, we call a superabundant semigroup S a regular crypto semigroup if H ^* is a congruence on S such that S/H ^* is a regular band. It will be proved that a superabundant semigroup S is a regular crypto semigroup if and only if S is a refined semilattice of completely J ^*-simple semigroups. Thus, regular crypto semigroups are generalization of the cryptic semigroups as well as abundant semigroups.