ACTA MATHEMATICA UNIVERSITATIS COMENIANAE

Vol. LXXVI, 2 (2007)
p. 201 - 214

A Special Congruence Lattice of a Regular Semigroup
M. Petrich


Abstract.  Let S be a regular semigroup and C its lattice of congruences. We consider the sublattice L of C generated by s-the least group, t-the greatest idempotent pure, m-the greatest idempotent separating and b-the least band congruence on S. To this end, we study the following special cases: (1) any three of these congruences generate a distributive lattice, (2) L is distributive, (3) the restriction of the K-relation to L is a congruence and (4) a further special case. In each of these instances, we provide several characterizations. Our basic concept is that of a c-triple which represents an abstraction of (L; K|L, T|L).

Keywords:  regular semigroups, congruence lattice, least group congruence, greatest idempotent pure congruence, greatest idempotent separating congruence, least band congruence.

AMS Subject classification.  Primary: 20M10.

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