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2. The rank of a commutative semigroup
- Creator:
- Cegarra, Antonio M. and Petrich, Mario
- Format:
- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- semigroup, commutative semigroup, independent subset, rank, separative semigroup, power cancellative semigroup, and archimedean component
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- The concept of rank of a commutative cancellative semigroup is extended to all commutative semigroups S by defining rank S as the supremum of cardinalities of finite independent subsets of S. Representing such a semigroup S as a semilattice Y of (archimedean) components Sα, we prove that rank S is the supremum of ranks of various Sα. Representing a commutative separative semigroup S as a semilattice of its (cancellative) archimedean components, the main result of the paper provides several characterizations of rank S; in particular if rank S is finite. Subdirect products of a semilattice and a commutative cancellative semigroup are treated briefly. We give a classification of all commutative separative semigroups which admit a generating set of one or two elements, and compute their ranks.
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ and policy:public