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Some subsemigroups of infinite full transformation semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

J. M. Howie
J. M. Howie
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Mathematical Institute, University of St Andrews
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As in an earlier paper by the author, three cardinal numbers, the shift, the defect and the collapse, are associated with each element of the full transformation semigroup ℑ(X), where X is an infinite set. It is shown that the elements of finite shift and non-zero defect form a subsemigroup F of ℑ(X). Moreover, if E(F) denotes the set of idempotents in F then 〈E(F)〉 = F, but (E(F))n ⊂F for every finite n. For each infinite cardinal m not exceeding ∣X∣ the set Qm of balanced elements of weight m, i.e. those with shift, defect and collapse all equal to m, forms a subsemigroup of ℑ(X). Moreover, (E(Qm))4=Qm,(E(Qm))3⊂Qm.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 88 , Issue 1-2 , 1981 , pp. 159 - 167
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1981

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