Monogenic semigroup

In mathematics, a monogenic semigroup is a semigroup generated by a set containing only a single element.[1] Monogenic semigroups are also called cyclic semigroups.[2]

Structure

The monogenic semigroup generated by the singleton set { a } is denoted by \langle a \rangle . The set of elements of \langle a \rangle is { a, a2, a3, ... }. There are two possibilities for the monogenic semigroup \langle a \rangle :

In the former case \langle a \rangle is isomorphic to the semigroup ( {1, 2, ... }, + ) of natural numbers under addition. In such a case, \langle a \rangle is an infinite monogenic semigroup and the element a is said to have infinite order. It is sometimes called the free monogenic semigroup because it is also a free semigroup with one generator.

In the latter case let m be the smallest positive integer such that a m = a x for some positive integer x m, and let r be smallest positive integer such that a m = a m + r. The positive integer m is referred to as the index and the positive integer r as the period of the monogenic semigroup \langle a \rangle . The order of a is defined as m+r-1. The period and the index satisfy the following properties:

The pair ( m, r ) of positive integers determine the structure of monogenic semigroups. For every pair ( m, r ) of positive integers, there does exist a monogenic semigroup having index m and period r. The monogenic semigroup having index m and period r is denoted by M ( m, r ). The monogenic semigroup M ( 1, r ) is the cyclic group of order r.

The results in this section actually hold for any element a of an arbitrary semigroup and the monogenic subsemigroup \langle a \rangle it generates.

Related notions

A related notion is that of periodic semigroup (also called torsion semigroup), in which every element has finite order (or, equivalently, in which every mongenic subsemigroup is finite). A more general class is that of quasi-periodic semigroups (aka group-bound semigroups or epigroups) in which every element of the semigroup has a power that lies in a subgroup.[5][6]

An aperiodic semigroup is one in which every monogenic subsemigroup has a period of 1.

See also

References

  1. Howie, J M (1976). An Introduction to Semigroup Theory. L.M.S. Monographs 7. Academic Press. pp. 711. ISBN 0-12-356950-8.
  2. A H Clifford; G B Preston (1961). The Algebraic Theory of Semigroups Vol.I. Mathematical Surveys 7. American Mathematical Society. pp. 1920. ISBN 978-0821802724.
  3. http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Kernel_of_a_semi-group
  4. http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Minimal_ideal
  5. http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Periodic_semi-group
  6. Peter M. Higgins (1992). Techniques of semigroup theory. Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-19-853577-5.
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