A combinatorial approach to the structure of locally inverse semigroups

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2021

Authors

Luís Oliveira (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Semigroup Forum

Vol. 103

Pages: 575-621

ISSN: 0037-1912

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Authenticus ID: P-00V-7AG

DOI: 10.1007/s00233-021-10203-z

Abstract (EN): This paper introduces a notion of presentation for locally inverse semigroups and develops a graph structure to describe the elements of locally inverse semigroups given by these presentations. These graphs will have a role similar to the role that Cayley graphs have for group presentations or that Schutzenberger graphs have for inverse monoid presentations. However, our graphs have considerable differences with the latter two, even though locally inverse semigroups generalize both groups and inverse semigroups. For example, the graphs introduced here are not 'inverse word graphs'. Instead, they are bipartite graphs with both oriented and non-oriented edges, and with labels on the oriented edges only. A byproduct of the theory developed here is the introduction of a graphical method for dealing with general locally inverse semigroups. These graphs are able to describe, for a locally inverse semigroup given by a presentation, many of the usual concepts used to study the structure of semigroups, such as the idempotents, the inverses of an element, the Green's relations, and the natural partial order. Finally, the paper ends characterizing the semigroups belonging to some usual subclasses of locally inverse semigroups in terms of properties on these graphs.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 47