The main purpose of the present note is to show (Theorem 2) that any regular ©-class of any semigroup is a partial homomorphic image of a Brandt groupoid. It follows from this that a semigroup with zero is a partial homomorphic image of a Brandt semigroup if and only if it is regular and O-bisimple. In the first section, an alternative formulation is given of the determination by H.-J. Hoehnke ...

Motion planning for systems with constraints on controls or the need for relatively straight paths for real-time actions presents challenges for modern planners. This paper presents an approach which addresses these types of systems by building on existing motion planning approaches. Guided Expansive Spaces Trees are introduced to search for a low cost and relatively straight path in a space wi...

We introduce the notions of weakly and strongly positively expansive (wPE and sPE, respectively) discrete dynamical systems. Both are topological generalizations of the well-known metric notion of positive expansiveness (PE). We prove that the three notions are identical on compact metrizable spaces, but not on noncompact spaces. We investigate properties of PE, wPE, and sPE dynamical systems a...

Expansive soils are often encountered in many parts of the world, especially in arid and semi-arid fields. Such kind of soils, generally including active clay minerals in low water content, enlarge in volume by absorbing the water through the surface and cause a great harm to the light structures such as channel coating, roads and airports. The expansive soils were encountered on the path of Ap...

The firing rates of neurons in the central visual pathway vary with stimulus strength, but not necessarily in a linear manner. In the contrast domain, the neural response function for cells in the primary visual cortex is characterized by expansive and compressive nonlinearities at low and high contrasts, respectively. A compressive nonlinearity at high contrast is also found for early visual p...

in this paper we study some results on noetherian semigroups. we  show that if  $s_s$ is an  strongly  faithful $s$-act and $s$ is a duo weakly noetherian, then we have the following.

Let M2 be the semigroup of linear endomorphisms of a plane. We show that the space of idempotents in M2 is a hyperboloid of one sheet, the set of semigroup-theoretic inverses of a nonzero singular element in M2 is a hyperbolic paraboloid, and the set of nilpotent elements in M2 is a right circular cone. This is the story of the rediscovery of classical three-dimensional geometry, especially the...

We define the length of a semigroup presentation and related ideas. Theoretical results and bounds are presented, gained while investigating the lengths of groups defined by semigroup presentations. Minimal length semigroup presentations are obtained in certain cases. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 20F05, 20M05