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A PROOF OF ISBELL’S ZIGZAG THEOREM

Part of: Semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2008

PIOTR HOFFMAN
PIOTR HOFFMAN*
Affiliation:
Warsaw University, Institute of Informatics, ul. Banacha 2, 02-097 Warszawa, Poland (email: [email protected])
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Abstract

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We provide a short, intuitive proof of Isbell’s zigzag theorem.

Keywords

semigroupszigzags

MSC classification

Secondary: 20M50: Connections of semigroups with homological algebra and category theory
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 84 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 229 - 232
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 Australian Mathematical Society

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