<Chapter Label = "Standard constructions">
<Heading>
Standard constructions
</Heading>
In this chapter we describe some standard ways of constructing semigroups and
monoids from other semigroups that are available in the &SEMIGROUPS; package.
<P/>
<Section Label="Products of semigroups">
<Heading>
Products of semigroups
</Heading>
In this section, we describe the functions in &SEMIGROUPS; that can be used
to create various products of semigroups.
<Section>
<Heading> Dual semigroups </Heading>
The <E>dual semigroup</E> of a semigroup <C>S</C> is the semigroup with the
same underlying set of elements but with reversed multiplication; this is
anti-isomorphic to <C>S</C>. In &SEMIGROUPS; a semigroup and its dual
are represented with disjoint sets of elements.
<#Include Label = "DualSemigroup">
<#Include Label = "IsDualSemigroupRep">
<#Include Label = "IsDualSemigroupElement">
<#Include Label = "AntiIsomorphismDualSemigroup">
</Section>
<Section Label = "Strong semilattices of semigroups">
<Heading>
Strong semilattices of semigroups
</Heading>
In this section, we describe how &SEMIGROUPS; can be used to create and
manipulate strong semilattices of semigroups (SSSs).
Strong semilattices of semigroups are described, for example, in Section
4.1 of <Cite Key = "Howie1995aa"/>.
They consist of a meet-semilattice <M>Y</M> along with a collection of
semigroups <M>S_a</M> for each <M>a</M> in <M>Y</M>, and a collection of
homomorphisms <M>f_{ab} : S_a \rightarrow S_b</M> for each <M>a</M> and
<M>b</M> in <M>Y</M> such that <M>a \geq b</M>.
<P/>
The product of two elements <M>x \in S_a, y \in S_b</M> is defined to lie
in the semigroup <M>S_c</M>, corresponding to the meet <M>c</M> of
<M>a, b \in Y</M>. The exact element of <M>S_c</M> equal to the product
is obtained using the homomorphisms of the SSS: <M>xy = (x f_{ac})
(y f_{bc})</M>.
<Section Label = "McAlister triple semigroups">
<Heading>
McAlister triple semigroups
</Heading>
In this section, we describe the functions in &GAP; for creating and
computing with McAlister triple semigroups and their subsemigroups.
This implementation is based on the section in Chapter 5 of
<Cite Key = "Howie1995aa"/> but differs from the treatment in Howie
by using right actions instead of left. Some definitions found in
the documentation are changed for this reason. <P/>
The importance of the McAlister triple semigroups lies in the fact that
they are exactly the E-unitary inverse semigroups, which are an important
class in the study of inverse semigroups. <P/>
First we define E-unitary inverse semigroups. It is standard to
denote the subsemigroup of a semigroup consisting of its idempotents by
<C>E</C>. A semigroup <C>S</C> is said to be <E>E-unitary</E> if for all
<C>e</C> in <C>E</C> and for all <C>s</C> in <C>S</C>:
For inverse semigroups these two conditions are equivalent. We are only
interested in <E>E-unitary inverse semigroups</E>.
Before defining McAlister triple semigroups we define a McAlister triple.
A <E>McAlister triple</E> is a triple <C>(G,X,Y)</C> which consists of:
<List>
<Item>
a partial order <C>X</C>,
</Item>
<Item>
a subset <C>Y</C> of <C>X</C>,
</Item>
<Item>
a group <C>G</C> which acts on <C>X</C>, on the right, by order
automorphisms. That means for all <C>A,B</C> <M>\in</M> <C>X</C> and
for all <C>g</C> <M>\in</M> <C>G</C>: <C>A</C> <M>\leq</M> <C>B</C> if
and only if <C>Ag</C> <M>\leq</M> <C>Bg</C>.
</Item>
</List>
Furthermore, <C>(G,X,Y)</C> must satisfy the following four properties to
be a McAlister triple:
<List>
<Mark> M1 </Mark>
<Item>
<C>Y</C> is a subset of <C>X</C> which is a join-semilattice together
with the restriction of the order relation of <C>X</C> to <C>Y</C>.
</Item>
<Mark> M2 </Mark>
<Item>
<C>Y</C> is an order ideal of <C>X</C>. That is to say, for all <C>A</C>
<M>\in</M> <C>X</C> and for all <C>B</C> <M>\in</M>
<C>Y</C>: if <C>A</C> <M>\leq</M> <C>B</C>, then <C>A</C> <M>\in</M>
<C>Y</C>.
</Item>
<Mark> M3 </Mark>
<Item>
Every element of <C>X</C> is the image of some element in <C>Y</C> moved
by an element of <C>G</C>. That is to say, for every <C>A</C> <M>\in</M>
<C>X</C>, there exists some <C>B</C> <M>\in</M> <C>Y</C> and there exists
<C>g</C> <M>\in</M> <C>G</C> such that <C>A</C> = <C>Bg</C>.
</Item>
<Mark> M4 </Mark>
<Item>
Finally, for all <C>g</C> <M>\in</M> <C>G</C>, the intersection
<C>{yg : y </C><M>\in</M><C> Y}</C> <M>\cap</M> <C>Y</C> is non-empty.
</Item>
</List>
We may define an E-unitary inverse semigroup using a McAlister triple. Given
<C>(G,X,Y)</C> let <C>M(G,X,Y)</C> be the set of all pairs <C>(A,g)</C> in
<C>Y x G</C> such that <C>A</C> acted on by the inverse of <C>g</C> is in
<C>Y</C> together with multiplication defined by <P/>
<C>(A,g)*(B,h) = (Join(A,Bg^-1),hg)</C> <P/>
where <C>Join</C> is the natural join operation of the semilattice and
<C>Bg^-1</C> is <C>B</C> acted on by the inverse of <C>g</C>. With this
operation, <C>M(G,X,Y)</C> is a semigroup which we call a <E>McAlister
triple semigroup</E> over <C>(G,X,Y)</C>. In fact every McAlister triple
semigroup is an E-unitary inverse semigroup and every E-unitary inverse
semigroup is isomorphic to some McAlister triple semigroup. Note that there
need not be a unique McAlister triple semigroup for a particular McAlister
triple because in general there is more than one way for a group to act on
a partial order.
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