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Embedding any countable semigroup without idempotents in a 2-generated simple semigroup without idempotents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

Karl Byleen
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Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA
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Although the classes of regular simple semigroups and simple semigroups without idempotents are evidently at opposite ends of the spectrum of simple semigroups, their theories involve some interesting connections. Jones [5] has obtained analogues of the bicyclic semigroup for simple semigroups without idempotents. Megyesi and Pollák [7] have classified all combinatorial simple principal ideal semigroups on two generators, showing that all are homomorphic images of one such semigroup Po which has no idempotents.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1988

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