Natural definition of entropy of semigroups
On any involuted semigroup , define the ternary operation for all . The resulting ternary algebra satisfies the para-associativity law , which defines the variety of semiheaps. Important subvarieties include generalised heaps, which arise from inverse semigroups, and heaps, which arise from groups. We consider the intermediate variety of near heaps, defined by the additional laws and . Every Clifford semigroup is a near heap when viewed as a semiheap, and we show that the Clifford semigroup...
A semiring S is said to be a quasi completely regular semiring if for any a ∈ S there exists a positive integer n such that na is completely regular. The present paper is devoted to the study of completely Archimedean semirings. We show that a semiring S is a completely Archimedean semiring if and only if it is a nil-extension of a completely simple semiring. This result extends the crucial structure theorem of completely Archimedean semigroup.
String rewriting reductions of the form , called loops, are the most frequent cause of infinite reductions (non- termination). Regarded as a model of computation, infinite reductions are unwanted whence their static detection is important. There are string rewriting systems which admit infinite reductions although they admit no loops. Their non-termination is particularly difficult to uncover. We present a few necessary conditions for the existence of loops, and thus establish a means...
Let be a semigroup. For such that , we say that is an associate of . A subgroup of which contains exactly one associate of each element of is called an associate subgroup of . It induces a unary operation in an obvious way, and we speak of a unary semigroup satisfying three simple axioms. A normal cryptogroup is a completely regular semigroup whose -relation is a congruence and is a normal band. Using the representation of as a strong semilattice of Rees matrix semigroups,...