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Decompositions of the congruence lattice of a semigroup

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

W. D. Munn
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Department of MathematicsUniversity of GlasgowGlasgow, G12 8QWScotland
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The purpose of this note is to extend the results of Reilly and Scheiblich (6) (see also Scheiblich (7) and Hall (2)) on the θ-class decomposition of the congruence lattice of a regular semigroup and, at the same time, to provide an alternative proof of these results.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1980

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