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The natural partial order on a regular semigroup

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

K. S. Subramonian Nambooripad
K. S. Subramonian Nambooripad
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Department of MathematicsUniversity of KeralaKariavattomTrivandrum, India
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It is well-known that on an inverse semigroup S the relation ≦ defined by a ≦ b if and only if aa−1 = ab−1 is a partial order (called the natural partial order) on S and that this relation is closely related to the global structure of S (cf. (1, §7.1), (10)). Our purpose here is to study a partial order on regular semigroups that coincides with the relation defined above on inverse semigroups. It is found that this relation has properties very similar to the properties of the natural partial order on inverse semigroups. However, this relation is not, in general, compatible with the multiplication in the semigroup. We show that this is true if and only if the semigroup is pseudo-inverse (cf. (8)). We also show how this relation may be used to obtain a simple description of the finest primitive congruence and the finest completely simple congruence on a regular semigroup.

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , October 1980 , pp. 249 - 260
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1980

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