Commutative Semigroups
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Advances in Mathematics VOLUME2
Series Editor: J. Szep, Budapest University of Economics, Hungary Advisory Board: G. Erjaee, Shiraz University, Iran W. Fouche, University of South Africa, South Africa P. Grillet, Tulane University, U.S.A. H.J. Hoehnke, Germany F. Szidarovszky, University of Arizona, U.S.A.
P. Zecca, Universita di Firenze, Italy
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Commutative Semigroups
by
P.A. GRILLET Tulane University, New Orleans, U.S.A.
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA. B.V.
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ISBN 978-1-4419-4857-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-3389-1
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CONTENTS Preface
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General structure theory Chapter I. Elementary properties 1. First results . . . . . 2. Homomorphisms and congruences 3. Ideals . . . . . . . . . . 4. Divisibility . . . . . . . 5. Free commutative semigroups 6. Presentations . . . . . .
I 6 13 I7 20 25
Chapter II. Cancellative semigroups I. Semigroups of fractions 2. Universal groups 3. Cancellative semigroups 4. Numerical semigroups 5. General structure 6. Faces . . . . 7. Free embedding 8. Krull monoids
29 29 32 36 39 44 50 54 57
Chapter III. Semilattice decompositions I. General results . . . . . . . 2. Clifford semigroups . . . . . 3. Complete archimedean semigroups 4. N-semigroups . . . . . . . . 5. Subcompiete archimedean semigroups 6. Power-joined semigroups . . Chapter IV. Subdirect decompositions I. Subdirect products 2. Separative semigroups 3. N ilsemigroups 4. Ponizovsky decompositions 5. Elementary semigroups
69 69 73 78 82
107 112
Chapter V. Group coextensions . 1. Dividing by J{ . . . . 2. SchOtzenberger functors 3. Coextensions . . . . . 4. Group coextensions 5. Subdirectly irreducible semigroups
115 115 117 120 I25 133
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Chapter VI. Finitely generated semigroups 1. Redei's Theorem . . . . 2. Subdirect decompositions . 3. Subelementary semigroups 4. The Completion Theorem 5. Irreducible semigroups . . 6. Archimedean semigroups . 7. The a.c.c. on subsemigroups
141 141 144 148 149 154 158 160
Chapter VII. Subcomplete semigroups 1. Completions . . . . . . . 2. Ponizovsky families . . . . 3. Another Completion Theorem 4. Properties . . . . . . 5. Schutzenberger functors
165 165 169 173 179 181
Chapter VIII. Other results 1. Examples . . . . 2. Products and subsets 3. Homomorphisms and congruences . . . . . . 4. Other topic
