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 ...

The author proves that, if S is an FIC-semigroup or a completely regular semigroup, and if RS is a ring with identity, then R < E(S) > is a ring with identity. Throughout this paper, R denotes as a ring with identity. Let S be a semigroup, X ⊆ S . The following notations are used in the paper: < X > : the subsemigroup of S generated by X ; |X| : the cardinal number of X ; E(S): the set of idemp...

We describe the structure of 0-simple countably compact topological inverse semigroups and the structure of congruence-free countably compact topological inverse semigroups. We follow the terminology of [3, 4, 8]. In this paper all topological spaces are Hausdorff. If S is a semigroup then we denote the subset of idempotents of S by E(S). A topological space S that is algebraically a semigroup ...

A formula for the rank of an arbitrary finite completely 0-simple semigroup, represented as a Rees matrix semigroup M[G; I,Λ;P ] , is given. The result generalises that of Ruškuc concerning the rank of connected finite completely 0-simple semigroups. The rank is expressed in terms of |I| , |Λ| , the number of connected components k of P and a number rmin which we define. We go on to show that t...