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Generalised partial transformation semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

R. P. Sullivan
Affiliation:
University of Papua & New GuineaBoroko T.P.N.G.
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It is well-known that for any set X, px, the semigroup of all partial transformations on X, can be embedded in Jx∪a for some aX (see for example Clifford and Preston (1967) and Ljapin (1963)). Recently Magill (1967) has considered a special case of what we call ‘generalised partial transformation semigroups’. We show here that any such semigroup can always be embedded in a full transformation smigroup in which the operation is not in general equal to the usual composition of mappinas. We then examine conditions under which such a semigroup, (J x, θ), is isomorphic to the semigroup, under composition, of all transformations on the same set X.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1975

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