Relational structures and dependence spaces
A subtraction semigroup is a semigroup with a further operation "" added, called subtraction and satisfying certain axioms. The paper concerns a problem by B. M. Schein concerning the structure of multiplication in a subtraction semigroup.
In this paper the notion of a ternary semigroup of morphisms of objects in a category is introduced. The connection between an isomorphism of categories and an isomorphism of ternary semigroups of morphisms of suitable objects in these categories is considered. Finally, the results obtained for general categories are applied to the categories and which were studied in [5].
A method is presented for proving primality and functional completeness theorems, which makes use of the operation-relation duality. By the result of Sierpiński, we have to investigate relations generated by the two-element subsets of only. We show how the method applies for proving Słupecki’s classical theorem by generating diagonal relations from each pair of k-tuples.