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THE ZELEZNIKOW PROBLEM ON A CLASS OF ADDITIVELY IDEMPOTENT SEMIRINGS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
Abstract
A semiring is a set $S$ with two binary operations
$+ $ and
$\cdot $ such that both the additive reduct
${S}_{+ } $ and the multiplicative reduct
${S}_{\bullet } $ are semigroups which satisfy the distributive laws. If
$R$ is a ring, then, following Chaptal [‘Anneaux dont le demi-groupe multiplicatif est inverse’, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Ser. A–B 262 (1966), 274–277],
${R}_{\bullet } $ is a union of groups if and only if
${R}_{\bullet } $ is an inverse semigroup if and only if
${R}_{\bullet } $ is a Clifford semigroup. In Zeleznikow [‘Regular semirings’, Semigroup Forum 23 (1981), 119–136], it is proved that if
$R$ is a regular ring then
${R}_{\bullet } $ is orthodox if and only if
${R}_{\bullet } $ is a union of groups if and only if
${R}_{\bullet } $ is an inverse semigroup if and only if
${R}_{\bullet } $ is a Clifford semigroup. The latter result, also known as Zeleznikow’s theorem, does not hold in general even for semirings
$S$ with
${S}_{+ } $ a semilattice Zeleznikow [‘Regular semirings’, Semigroup Forum 23 (1981), 119–136]. The Zeleznikow problem on a certain class of semirings involves finding condition(s) such that Zeleznikow’s theorem holds on that class. The main objective of this paper is to solve the Zeleznikow problem for those semirings
$S$ for which
${S}_{+ } $ is a semilattice.
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- Information
- Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 95 , Issue 3 , December 2013 , pp. 404 - 420
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- Copyright ©2013 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.
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