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Ideals of free inverse semigroups

Part of: Semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

W. D. Munn
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW, Scotland
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Abstract

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It is shown that no proper ideal of a free inverse semigroup is free and that every isomorphism between ideals is induced by a unique automorphism of the whole semigroup. In addition, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for two principal ideals to be isomorhic.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1980

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