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On semigroups with involution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

D. Easdown  and
W.D. Munn
D. Easdown
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
W.D. Munn
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW, Scotland United Kingdom
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A semigroup S with an involution * is called a special involution semigroup if and only if, for every finite nonempty subset T of S,

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It is shown that a semigroup is inverse if and only if it is a special involution semigroup in which every element invariant under the involution is periodic. Other examples of special involution semigroups are discussed; these include free semigroups, totally ordered cancellative commutative semigroups and certain semigroups of matrices. Some properties of the semigroup algebras of special involution semigroups are also derived. In particular, it is shown that their real and complex semigroup algebras are semiprimitive.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , August 1993 , pp. 93 - 100
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1993

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