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Normal partitions of idempotents of regular semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

P. G. Trotter
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of TasmaniaHobart, TasmaniaAustralia
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Abstract

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A characterization is provided here for any normal partition of the set of idempotents of a regular semigroup S. As a by-product of the method used, a new characterization of the greatest congruence on S corresponding to a given normal partition of its idempotents is obtained.

Subject classification (Amer. Math. Soc. (MOS) 1970): 20 M 10.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1978

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