Generalized bicyclic semigroups and Jones semigroups
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Generalized bicyclic semigroups and Jones semigroups
zbMATH Open document ID: 1002.20033
author: Bingjun Yu
author: Qifen Jiang
published in: Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics
publication date: 2002-05-30T00:00:00Z
review text: A classic result of Anderson is that if a simple, but not completely simple, semigroup \(S\) contains an idempotent, then it contains a copy of the bicyclic monoid \(B=\langle a,b\mid ab=1\rangle\). The reviewer [Proc. R. Soc. Edinb., Sect. A 106, 11-24 (1987; Zbl 0626.20047)] showed that if such a semigroup is idempotent-free and Green's relation \(\mathcal D\) is nontrivial, then it contains a copy of the semigroup \(C=\langle a,b\mid a^2b=a,\;ab^2=b\rangle\) or of \(A=\langle a,b\mid a^2b=a\rangle\) or its dual, each of which clearly has \(B\) as an image. Here the authors generalize the constructions of \(B\) and \(A\) as follows. For a positive integer \(n\), the `generalized bicyclic semigroup' \(B_n=\langle a,b\mid a^nb=1\rangle\); the `Jones semigroup' \(A_n=\langle a,b\mid a^{n+1}b=a\rangle\). The word problems are solved for these semigroups and used to study their properties. For instance, each \(B_n\) is bisimple and, for \(n>1\), right inverse but not inverse. The semigroups \(A_n\) inherit many of the properties of \(A=A_1\): each is the extension of an \(\mathcal L\)-trivial, simple, idempotent-free kernel by an infinite cyclic semigroup and has \(C\) as its minimum idempotent-free quotient. For distinct \(m,n\), \(A_m\) and \(A_n\) are mutually embeddable but nonisomorphic.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20M05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20M10
zbMATH DE Number: 1748008
zbMATH Keywords: idempotent-free semigroups
zbMATH Keywords: generalized bicyclic semigroups
zbMATH Keywords: Jones semigroups
zbMATH Keywords: simple semigroups
zbMATH Keywords: idempotents
zbMATH Keywords: word problems
reviewed by: Peter R. Jones
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s10012-001-0365-x
OpenAlex ID: W1980182478
DOI: 10.1007/S10012-001-0365-X
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