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Right Cancellative and Left Ample Monoids: Quasivarieties and Proper Covers

✍ Scribed by Victoria Gould


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
191 KB
Volume
228
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-8693

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✦ Synopsis


The aim of this paper is to study certain quasivarieties of left ample monoids. Left ample monoids are monoids of partial one-one mappings of sets closed under the operation α → αα -1 . The idempotents of a left ample monoid form a semilattice and have a strong influence on the structure of the monoid; however, a left ample monoid need not be inverse. Every left ample monoid has a maximum right cancellative image and a proper cover which is also left ample. The structure of proper left ample monoids is well understood. Let be a class of right cancellative monoids. A left ample monoid has a proper cover over if it has a proper cover with maximum right cancellative image in . We show that if is a quasivariety determined within right cancellative monoids by equations, then the left ample monoids having a proper cover over form a quasivariety. We achieve our aim using the technique of graph expansions to construct proper left ample monoids from presentations of right cancellative monoids.