This paper studies algebras of operators associated to a semigroup algebra. The ring of differential operators is shown to be anti-isomorphic to the symmetry algebra and both are described explicitly in terms of the semigroup. As an application, we produce a criterion to determine the equivalence of A-hypergeometric systems. Conditions under which associated algebras are finitely generated are ...

Let R be a commutative ring and S a finite locally inverse semigroup. It is proved that the semigroup algebra R S is isomorphic to the direct product of Munn algebras M R GJ , mJ , nJ ;PJ with J ∈ S/J, where mJ is the number of R-classes in J , nJ the number of L-classes in J , and GJ a maximum subgroup of J . As applications, we obtain the sufficient and necessary conditions for the semigroup ...

It is shown that a transitive, closed, homogeneous semigroup of linear transformations on a finite-dimensional space either has zero divisors or is simultaneously similar to a group consisting of scalar multiples of unitary transformations. The proof begins with the result that for each closed homogeneous semigroup with no zero divisors there is a k such that the spectral radius satisfies r(AB)...

We consider those positive integers that are not representable as linear combinations of terms of a generalized arithmetic progression with nonnegative integer coefficients. To do this, we make use of the numerical semigroup generated by a generalized arithmetic progression. The number of integers nonrepresentable by such a numerical semigroup is determined as well as that of its dual. In addit...

We study the group-valued and semigroup-valued conservation laws in cellular automata (CA). We provide examples to distinguish between semigroup-valued, group-valued and real-valued conservation laws. We prove that, even in one-dimensional case, it is undecidable if a CA has any non-trivial conservation law of each type. For a fixed range, each CA has a most general (group-valued or semigroup-v...

In this paper we study the preservation of strong stability of strongly continuous semigroups on Hilbert spaces. In particular, we study a situation where the generator of the semigroup has a finite number of spectral points on the imaginary axis and the norm of its resolvent operator is polynomially bounded near these points. We characterize classes of perturbations preserving the strong stabi...

Let T X be the full transformation semigroup on the setX and let T X,Y {α ∈ T X : Xα ⊆ Y}. Then T X,Y is a sub-semigroup of T X determined by a nonempty subset Y of X. In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for T X,Y to be regular. In the case that T X,Y is not regular, the largest regular sub-semigroup is obtained and this sub-semigroup is shown to determine the Green’s re...

In a semigroup, the combinatorial definitions of syndetic, piecewise syndetic, and IP are equivalent to their algebraic characterizations in terms of βS. We introduce the analogous definitions and characterizations of syndetic, piecewise syndetic, and IP for an adequate partial semigroup and show that equivalence between the combinatorial definition and algebraic characterization is lost once w...

Denote by (R, ·) the multiplicative semigroup of an associative algebra R over an infinite field, and let (R, ◦) represent R when viewed as a semigroup via the circle operation x ◦ y = x + y + xy. In this paper we characterize the existence of an identity in these semigroups in terms of the Lie structure of R. Namely, we prove that the following conditions on R are equivalent: the semigroup (R,...

A locally testable semigroup S is a semigroup with the property that for some nonnegative integer k, called the order or level of local testability, two words u and v in some set of generators for S are equal in the semigroup if (1) the pre x and su x of the words of length k coincide, and (2) the set of intermediate substrings of length k of the words coincide. The local testability problem fo...