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Residual finiteness of free products of combinatorial strict inverse semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Karl Auinger
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematik, Strudlhofgasse 4, A-1090 Wien, Austria

Abstract

It is shown that the free product of two residually finite combinatorial strict inverse semigroups in general is not residually finite. In contrast, the free product of a residually finite combinatorial strict inverse semigroup and a semilattice is residually finite.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1994

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