Volume 15, Number 1, July 2021, 231-253.
https://doi.org/10.52547/cgasa.15.1.231
On epimorphisms and structurally regular
semigroups
A.H. Shah*, S. Bano, S.A. Ahanger, and W. Ashraf
Abstract. In this paper we study epimorphisms, dominions and related
properties for some classes of structurally (n, m)-regular semigroups for any
pair (n, m) of positive integers. In Section 2, after a brief introduction of
these semigroups, we prove that the class of structurallly (n, m)-generalized
inverse semigroups is closed under morphic images. We then prove the main
result of this section that the class of structurally (n, m)-generalized inverse
semigroups is saturated and, thus, in the category of all semigroups, epimor-
phisms in this class are precisely surjective morphisms. Finally, in the last
section, we prove that the variety of structurally (o, n)-left regular bands is
saturated in the variety of structurally (o, k)-left regular bands for all positive
integers k and n with 1 k n.
C Introduction and preliminaries
A morphism α : S → T in the category of all semigroups is called an epi-
morphism (epi for short) if for all morphisms β,γ with αβ = αγ implies
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Keywords : Dominions, epimorphisms, zigzag, saturated, structurally regular.
Mathematics Subject Classification [2010]: Primary 06F07, 20M07, 20M10.
Received: 15 December 2020, Accepted: 26 April 2021.
ISSN: Print 2345-5853, Online 2345-5861.
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