Construction and representation of regular semigroups (Q1899942)

This is a substantial paper which introduces a categorical framework for the study of various standard types of hulls of a regular semigroup. Familiarity with the notion of inductive groupoid and the theory of biordered sets is assumed. The method is based on the notion of a so called \(E\)-diagram in an arbitrary category \(C\) with respect to a regular biordered set \(E\). Specializations of \(C\) then allow the recovery of certain hull constructions. Explicit descriptions are given in the case where \(E(T)\) is the biordered set of idempotents of a regular matrix semigroup \(T\) over a regular semigroup \(S\).