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σ-Reflexive Semigroups and Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

M. Chacrono
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
G. Thierrin
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
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We shall call a semigroup S a σ-reflexive semigroup if any subsemigroup H in S is reflexive (i.e. for all a, bS, abH implies baH ([2], [5]). It can be verified that any group G is a σ-reflexive semigroup if and only if any subgroup of G is normal. In this paper, we characterize subdirectly irreducible o-reflexive semigroups. We derive the following commutativity result: any generalized commutative ring R ([1]) in which the integers n=n(x, y) in the equation (xy)n = (yx)m can be taken equal to 1 for all x, y ∈ R must be a commutative ring.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1972

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