On <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>-Central Semigroups

A semigroup S is said to be n-central if xⁿ belongs to the center of S for every x S. We prove that every n-central semigroup is a semilattice of archimedean n-central semigroups. We obtain characterizations of simple (0-simple) n-central semigroups and describe subdirectly irreducible n-central semigroups. We also deal with the connection of n-central semigroups and E-k semigroups.