Certain Partial Orders on Semigroups

Relations introduced by Conrad, Drazin, Hartwig, Mitsch and Nambooripad are discussed on general, regular, completely semisimple and completely regular semigroups. Special properties of these relations as well as possible coincidence of some of them are investigated in some detail. The properties considered are mainly those of being a partial order or compatibility with multiplication. Coincidences of some of these relations are studied mainly on regular and completely regular semigroups.     

Orders in Strict Regular Semigroups

 A subsemigroup S of a semigroup Q is an order in Q if for every there exist such that , where a and d are contained in (maximal) subgroups of Q, and and are their inverses in these subgroups. A regular semigroup S is strict if it is a subdirect product of completely (0-)simple semigroups. We construct all orders and involutions in Auinger’s model of a strict regular semigroup. This is used to find necessary and sufficient conditions on an involution on an order S in a strict regular semigroup Q for extendibility to an involution on Q. (Received 27 April 1999; in revised form 20 October 1999)     

Commutative cancellative semigroups of finite rank

The rank of a commutative cancellative semigroup S is the cardinality of a maximal independent subset of S. Commutative cancellative semigroups of finite rank are subarchimedean and thus admit a Tamura-like representation. We characterize these semigroups in several ways and provide structure theorems in terms of a construction akin to the one devised by T. Tamura for N-semigroups.