Inverse semigroups with isomorphic partial automorphism semigroups

Partial automorphism semigroups

We study the relationship between algebraic structures and their inverse semigroups of partial automorphisms. We consider a variety of classes of natural structures including equivalence structures, orderings, Boolean algebras, and relatively complemented distributive lattices. For certain subsemigroups of these inverse semigroups, isomorphism (elementary equivalence) of the subsemigroups yield...

Primer on Inverse Semigroups

Semigroups of inverse quotients

We examine, in a general setting, a notion of inverse semigroup of left quotients, which we call left I-quotients. This concept has appeared, and has been used, as far back as Clifford’s seminal work describing bisimple inverse monoids in terms of their right unit subsemigroups. As a consequence of our approach, we find a straightforward way of extending Clifford’s work to bisimple inverse semi...

Expansions of Inverse Semigroups

We construct the freest idempotent-pure expansion of an inverse semigroup, generalizing an expansion of Margolis and Meakin for the group case. We also generalize the Birget-Rhodes prefix expansion to inverse semigroups with an application to partial actions of inverse semigroups. In the process of generalizing the latter expansion, we are led to a new class of idempotent-pure homomorphisms whi...

Semilattice ordered inverse semigroups

As Jonathan Leech has pointed out, many natural examples of inverse semigroups are semilattice ordered under the natural partial order. But there are many interesting examples of semilattice ordered inverse semigroups in which the imposed partial order is not the natural one. In this talk we shall explore the structure and properties of these examples and some other questions related to semilat...