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On left cancellative semigroups

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In this note we shall describe the structure of left cancellative semigroups. We shall also investigate the existence of idempotents and show that the existence of idempotents is related to the existence of maximal proper right ideals.

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  1. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

    M. Satyanarayana

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Communicated by Štefan Schwarz

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Satyanarayana, M. On left cancellative semigroups. Semigroup Forum 6, 317–329 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02389139

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