(<em>ϕ, ψ</em>)-Mutations of commutative monoids with maximal endomorphism semirings

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(ϕ, ψ)-Mutations of commutative monoids with maximal endomorphism semirings

Published in: Quaestiones Mathematicae
Volume 36 , issue 4 , 2013 , pages: 477–485
DOI: 10.2989/16073606.2013.779970
Author(s): K-T Howell Department of Mathematical Sciences, South Africa , C.J. Maxson Department of Mathematics, USA

Abstract

We use commuting idempotent endomorphisms of a commutative monoid 〈S, ·, e〉 to define a new operation, ⊙, on S to obtain a medial semigroup 〈S, ⊙〉. We investigate the maximality of the semiring 〈End〈S, ⊙〉, ⊙, ◦〉 as a semiring in 〈Map(S), ⊙, ◦〉.

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