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On the endomorphism semigroup of an ordered set

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

T. S. Blyth
T. S. Blyth
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Mathematical Institute, University of St Andrews, St Andrews Ky16 9SS, Scotland.
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M. E. Adams and Matthew Gould [1] have obtained a remarkable classification of ordered sets P for which the monoid End P of endomorphisms (i.e. isotone maps) is regular, in the sense that for every f є End P there exists g є End P such that fgf = f. They show that the class of such ordered sets consists precisely of

(a) all antichains;

(b) all quasi-complete chains;

(c) all complete bipartite ordered sets (i.e. given non-zero cardinals α β an ordered set Kα,β of height 1 having α minimal elements and β maximal elements, every minimal element being less than every maximal element);

(d) for a non-zero cardinal α the lattice Mα consisting of a smallest element 0, a biggest element 1, and α atoms;

(e) for non-zero cardinals α, β the ordered set Nα,β of height 1 having α minimal elements and β maximal elements in which there is a unique minimal element α0 below all maximal elements and a unique maximal element β0 above all minimal elements (and no further ordering);

(f) the six-element crown C6 with Hasse diagram

A similar characterisation, which coincides with the above for sets of height at most 2 but differs for chains, was obtained by A. Ya. Aizenshtat [2].

Type
Research Article
Information
Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , May 1995 , pp. 173 - 178
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1995

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