decomposability of an algebraic structure into the :union: of its sub-structures goes back to g. scorza's theorem of 1926 for groups. an analogue of this theorem for rings has been recently studied by a. lucchini in 2012. on the study of this problem for non-group semigroups, the first attempt is due to clifford's work of 1961 for the regular semigroups. since then, n.p. mukherjee in ...
