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Clifford monoid presentations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Pedro V. Silva
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática, Universidade do Porto, 4000 Porto, Portugal Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW

Abstract

Some decidability results for presentations in the variety of Clifford monoids are obtained. These results are applied in the solution of the E-unitary problem for presentations in the variety of inverse monoids.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1992

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