Semigroups with an additional unary operation called a (right) closure are investigated. These “closure semigroups” may be viewed as (not necessarily regular) generalisations of inverse semigroups, and several powerful structural aspects of inverse semigroup theory are shown to extend naturally to some important classes of closure semigroups. These include representations as partial transformat...

in the present paper, the concepts of module (uniform) approximate amenability and contractibility of banach algebras that are modules over another banach algebra, are introduced. the general theory is developed and some hereditary properties are given. in analogy with the banach algebraic approximate amenability, it is shown that module approximate amenability and contractibility are the same ...

Within the usual semidirect product S ∗ T of regular semigroups S and T lies the set Reg (S ∗ T ) of its regular elements. Whenever S or T is completely simple, Reg (S ∗T ) is a (regular) subsemigroup. It is this ‘product’ that is the theme of the paper. It is best studied within the framework of existence (or e-) varieties of regular semigroups. Given two such classes, U and V, the e-variety U...

Goes to the advanced topics rather fast. Contains up-to-date proofs for free inverse semigroups, topics on biordered sets, Isbell's zigzags , and some combinatorics of transformation semigroups.] Fundamentals of semigroup theory, 1995. [Probably the best introduction. Contains more advanced material such as Isbell's zigzags , and the free inverse semi-groups]. G. Lallement, Semigroups and combi...

In this paper we investigate the Green‎ ‎graphs for the regular and inverse semigroups by considering the‎ ‎Green classes of them‎. ‎And by using the properties of these‎ ‎semigroups‎, ‎we prove that all of the five Green graphs for the‎ ‎inverse semigroups are isomorphic complete graphs‎, ‎while this‎ ‎doesn't hold for the regular semigroups‎. ‎In other words‎, ‎we prove‎ ‎that in a regular se...

We generalize the character formulas for multiplicities of irreducible constituents from group theory to semigroup theory using Rota’s theory of Möbius inversion. The technique works for a large class of semigroups including: inverse semigroups, semigroups with commuting idempotents, idempotent semigroups and semigroups with basic algebras. Using these tools we are able to give a complete descr...