Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

24 p.

Publication Date

11-2010

Publisher

Elsevier

Source Publication

Journal of Algebra

Source ISSN

0021-8693

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2010.07.046

Abstract

The question of which semigroups have lower semimodular lattice of subsemigroups has been open since the early 1960s, when the corresponding question was answered for modularity and for upper semimodularity. We provide a characterization of such semigroups in the language of principal factors. Since it is easily seen (and has long been known) that semigroups for which Green's relation J is trivial have this property, a description in such terms is natural. In the case of periodic semigroups—a case that turns out to include all eventually regular semigroups—the characterization becomes quite explicit and yields interesting consequences. In the general case, it remains an open question whether there exists a simple, but not completely simple, semigroup with this property. Any such semigroup must at least be idempotent-free and D-trivial.

Comments

Accepted version. Journal of Algebra, Vol. 324, No. 9 (November 1, 2010). DOI. © 2010 Elsevier. Used with permission.

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