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A note on commutative semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

T. P. Speed
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In 1962, O. Frink [2] showed that in a pseudo-complemented semilattice 〈P; ∧, *, 0〉, the closed elements form a Boolean algebra. We shall consider an extension of this result to arbitrary commutative semigroups with zero.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , November 1968 , pp. 731 - 736
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1968

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