The pseudovariety of semigroups of triangular matrices over a finite field
Jorge Almeida; Stuart W. Margolis; Mikhail V. Volkov
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications (2010)
- Volume: 39, Issue: 1, page 31-48
- ISSN: 0988-3754
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topAlmeida, Jorge, Margolis, Stuart W., and Volkov, Mikhail V.. "The pseudovariety of semigroups of triangular matrices over a finite field." RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications 39.1 (2010): 31-48. <http://eudml.org/doc/92764>.
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We show that semigroups representable by triangular matrices over a fixed finite field
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