The main purpose of the present note is to show (Theorem 2) that any regular ©-class of any semigroup is a partial homomorphic image of a Brandt groupoid. It follows from this that a semigroup with zero is a partial homomorphic image of a Brandt semigroup if and only if it is regular and O-bisimple. In the first section, an alternative formulation is given of the determination by H.-J. Hoehnke ...

Two results by Schützenberger (1965) and by McNaughton and Papert (1971) lead to a precise description of the expressive power of first order logic on words interpreted as ordered colored structures. In this paper, we study the expressive power of existential formulas and of Boolean combinations of existential formulas in a logic enriched by modular numerical predicates. We first give a combina...

In this paper, we introduce the notion of (i-v) fuzzy (weakly) completely regular subsemigroup of a semigroup S and study their different properties. We show that every (i-v) fuzzy completely regular subsemigroup of a semigroup S is a union of (i-v) fuzzy subgroups of S. We also characterize (i-v) fuzzy completely regular subsemigroup by (i-v) fuzzy semilattice of (i-v) fuzzy subgroups. 2010 AM...

For a regular biordered set E, the notion of E-diagram and the associated regular semigroup was introduced in our previous paper (1995). Given a regular biordered set E, an E-diagram in a category C is a collection of objects, indexed by the elements of E and morphisms of C satisfying certain compatibility conditions. With such an E-diagram A we associate a regular semigroup RegE(A) having E as...

We consider random walks on idempotent semigroups, called Left Regular Bands, satisfying the relation xyx = xy for any two elements x and y of the semigroup. We give an alternating upper bound for the total variation distance of a random walk on a Left Regular Band semigroup, improving the previous bound by Brown and Diaconis.