Finite Proper Covers in a Class of Finite Semigroups with Commuting Idempotents

Semigroup Forum

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 433-454

  Gomes, Gracinda M S ^a,b   Gould, Victoria ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(semi)adequate; Ample; Cover; E unitary; Proper; Semilattice

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

SEMILATTICES; SYMMETRIC INVERSE SEMIGROUPS;

SET THEORY;

EID: 1642277929     PISSN: 00371912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002330010144     Document Type: Article

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