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A necessary and sufficient condition is provided for a (two-sided) restriction semigroup to be embeddable in a W-product of a semilattice by a monoid.
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Communicated by Gracinda Gomes.
Dedicated to the memory of John M. Howie.
Research supported by the Hungarian National Foundation for Scientific Research grant No. K77409, K83219, and by the European Union, co-funded by the European Social Fund, under the project No. TÁMOP-4.2.2.A-11/1/KONV-2012-0073.
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Szendrei, M.B. Embedding of a restriction semigroup into a W-product. Semigroup Forum 89, 280–291 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00233-013-9516-5
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