Let ~ C be a category whose objects are semigroups with topology and morphisms are closed semigroup relations, in particular, continuous homomorphisms. An object X of the category ~ C is called ~ C-closed if for each morphism Φ ⊂ X×Y in the category ~ C the image Φ(X) = {y ∈ Y : ∃x ∈ X (x, y) ∈ Φ} is closed in Y. In the paper we survey existing and new results on topological groups, which are ~...

We initiate the study of interval-valued fuzzy quasi-ideal of a semigroup. In Section 2, we list some basic definitions in the later sections. In Section 3, we investigate interval-valued fuzzy subsemigroups and in Section 4, we define intervalvalued fuzzy quasi-ideals and establish some of their basic properties. In Section 5, we obtain characterizations of regular and intraregular semigroups ...

It has been well known that the band of idempotents of a naturally ordered orthodox semigroup satisfying the “strong Dubreil-Jacotin condition” forms a normal band. In the literature, the naturally ordered orthodox semigroups satisfying the strong Dubreil-Jacotin condition were first considered by Blyth and Almeida Santos in 1992. Based on the name “epigroup” in the paper of Blyth and Almeida S...

The syntactic semigroup problem is to decide whether a given finite semigroup is syntactic or not. This work investigates the syntactic semigroup problem for both the semigroup reducts of A(Bn), the affine nearsemiring over a Brandt semigroup Bn. It is ascertained that both the semigroup reducts of A(Bn) are syntactic semigroups.

Let (S,+) be an infinite commutative semigroup with identity 0. Let u, v ∈ N and let A be a u×v matrix with nonnegative integer entries. If S is cancellative, let the entries of A come from Z. Then A is image partition regular over S (IPR/S) iff whenever S \{0} is finitely colored, there exists ~x ∈ (S \{0}) such that the entries of A~x are monochromatic. The matrix A is centrally image partiti...

The rank of a commutative cancellative semigroup S is the cardinality of a maximal independent subset of S. Commutative cancellative semigroups of finite rank are subarchimedean and thus admit a Tamura-like representation. We characterize these semigroups in several ways and provide structure theorems in terms of a construction akin to the one devised by T. Tamura for N-semigroups.

We derive the actions for type II Green-Schwarz strings up to second order in the fermions, for general bosonic backgrounds. We base our work on the so-called normal coordinate expansion. The resulting actions are κ-symmetric and, for the case of surviving background supersymmetries, supersymmetric. We first obtain the type IIa superstring action from the 11D supermembrane by double dimensional...

We characterize those regular continuous frames for which the least compactification is a perfect compactification. Perfect compactifications are those compactifications of frames for which the right adjoint of the compactification map preserves disjoint binary joins. Essential to our characterization is the construction of the frame analog of the twopoint compactification of a locally compact ...