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Mobs and semitrees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

T. B. Muenzenberger
Affiliation:
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, U.S.A.University of Wyoming and University of Houston, U.S.A.
R. E. Smithson
Affiliation:
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, U.S.A.University of Wyoming and University of Houston, U.S.A.
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In (1957) Ward characterized trees as being certain compact idempotent commutative monotone mobs. The purpose of the present note is to obtain a similar characterization for the semitrees as studied by Muenzenberger and Smithson (1973, 1975).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1976

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