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An example involving a non-regular -class in a semigroup

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

T. E. Hall
Affiliation:
Monash UniversityClayton, Victoria
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We answer in the negative (by considering an example) the problem posed in exercise 6 of § 2.3, page 62 [1], namely: If a D-class D of a semigroup S is a subsemigroup of S, then is D necessarily bisimple? For any semigroup T, we let LT, RT, HT, DT and JT denote Green's relations on T.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1972

References

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