Sandwich sets and partial order.
Second centralizers of partial transformations on a finite set are determined. In particular, it is shown that the second centralizer of any partial transformation consists of partial transformations that are locally powers of .
Suppose σ is an equivalence on a set X and let E(X, σ) denote the semigroup (under composition) of all α: X → X such that σ ⊆ α ∘ α −1. Here we characterise Green’s relations and ideals in E(X, σ). This is analogous to recent work by Sullivan on K(V, W), the semigroup (under composition) of all linear transformations β of a vector space V such that W ⊆ ker β, where W is a fixed subspace of V.