Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 October 2019
Let $T_{n}(\mathbb{F})$ be the semigroup of all upper triangular
$n\times n$ matrices over a field
$\mathbb{F}$. Let
$UT_{n}(\mathbb{F})$ and
$UT_{n}^{\pm 1}(\mathbb{F})$ be subsemigroups of
$T_{n}(\mathbb{F})$, respectively, having
$0$s and/or
$1$s on the main diagonal and
$0$s and/or
$\pm 1$s on the main diagonal. We give some sufficient conditions under which an involution semigroup is nonfinitely based. As an application, we show that
$UT_{2}(\mathbb{F}),UT_{2}^{\pm 1}(\mathbb{F})$ and
$T_{2}(\mathbb{F})$ as involution semigroups under the skew transposition are nonfinitely based for any field
$\mathbb{F}$.
This research was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11401275, 11771191 and 11371177) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. lzujbky-2016-96).