It is known that every semigroup of normal completely positive maps P = {Pt : t ≥ 0} of B(H), satisfying Pt(1) = 1 for every t ≥ 0, has a minimal dilation to an E0-semigroup acting on B(K) for some Hilbert space K ⊇ H. The minimal dilation of P is unique up to conjugacy. In a previous paper a numerical index was introduced for semigroups of completely positive maps and it was shown that the ind...

Semigroups whose congruences form a chain are often termed ∆-semigroups. The commutative ∆-semigroups were determined by Schein and by Tamura. A natural generalization of commutativity is permutativity: a semigroup is permutative if it satisfies a non-identity permutational identity. We completely determine the permutative ∆-semigroups. It turns out that there are only six noncommutative exampl...

The five-element Brandt semigroup B2 and its four-element subsemigroup B0, obtained by omitting one nonidempotent, have played key roles in the study of varieties of semigroups. Regarded in that fashion, they have long been known to be finitely based. The semigroup B2 carries the natural structure of an inverse semigroup. Regarded as such, in the signature {·,−1 }, it is also finitely based. It...

Let G be a semigroup of rational functions of degree at least two where the semigroup operation is composition of functions. We prove that the largest open subset of the Riemann sphere on which the semigroup G is normal and is completely invariant under each element of G, can have only 0, 1, 2, or infinitely many components.

A semigroup S is said to have the compactness property, or CP for short, if each system of equations over a nite set of variables has an equivalent nite subsystem, that is, having exactly the same solutions in S. We prove that a completely 0-simple semigroup S satis es CP if and only if the group G in a Rees matrix representation S = M0(I; G; ;P) satis es this property. Further, a variety of co...