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Matrix representations of semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

D. B. McAlister
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Department of Pure MathematicsQueen's UniversityBelfast
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In a series of papers [6], [7], [8], [10], Munn has considered the problem of constructing all irreducible representations of a semigroup by matrices over a field. In [10], he showed how to construct all the irreducible representations of an arbitrary inverse semigroup from those of associated Brandt semigroups. In this paper, we generalize the method of [10] to give a construction for the irreducible representations of an arbitrary semigroup from those of certain associated semigroups

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Research Article
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1967

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