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Coherent Monoids

Part of: Semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Victoria Gould
Victoria Gould
Affiliation:
University of YorkHeslington, York YO1 5DD, United Kingdom
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Abstract

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This paper is concerned with a new notion of coherency for monoids. A monoid S is right coherent if the first order theory of right S-sets is coherent; this is equivalent to the property that every finitely generated S-subset of every finitely presented right S-set is finitely presented. If every finitely generated right ideal of S is finitely presented we say that S is weakly right coherent. As for the corresponding situation for modules over a ring, we show that our notion of coherency is related to products of flat left S-sets, although there are some marked differences in behaviour from the case for rings. Further, we relate our work to ultraproducts of flat left S-sets and so to the question of axiomatisability of certain classes of left S-sets.

We show that a monoid S is weakly right coherent if and only if the right annihilator congruence of every element is finitely generated and the intersection of any two finitely generated right ideals is finitely generated. A similar result describes right coherent monoids. We use these descriptions to recognise several classes of (weakly) right coherent monoids. In particular we show that any free monoid is weakly right (and left) coherent and any free commutative monoid is right (and left) coherent.

MSC classification

Secondary: 20M10: General structure theory
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , October 1992 , pp. 166 - 182
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1992

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