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Chains of congruences on a completely 0-simple semigroup

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

G. B. Preston
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria.
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Let ρ and σ be two congruences on a completely 0-simple semigroup. Suppose that there is a maximal chain of congruences from ρ to σ which is of finite length. Then, as we shall show, any maximal chain of congruences from ρ to σ finite and of the same length.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1965

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