Completions of semilattices of cancellative semigroups

Burgess, W. D.

Glasgow mathematical journal, Tome 21 (1980) no. 1, pp. 29-37

Résumé

A semilattice of cancellative semigroups S is a p.o. semigroup with the order relation a ≤ b iff ab = a2. If S is a strong semilattice of cancellative semigroups (i.e., multiplication in S is given by structure maps φe,f (f ≤ e in E)), for each supremum-preserving completion Ē of the semilattice E there is a strong semilattice of cancellative semigroups T over Ē which is a supremum-preserving completion of S in ≤. Given Ē, T is constructed directly. In this paper it is shown that multiplication by an element of S distributes over suprema in ≤ if E has this property (called strong distributivity). Next it is shown that the completion construction also applies to a semilattice of cancellative semigroups which is not strong if S is commutative and Ē is strongly distributive. Finally, it is shown that for semilattices of cancellative monoids a completion is completely determined, up to isomorphism over S, by completions of E.

Détail

DOI : 10.1017/S0017089500003955

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