The existence of free products in existence varieties of regular semigroups (Q1902529)
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The existence of free products in existence varieties of regular semigroups (English)
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4 June 1996
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It has been known for many years that the class of all regular semigroups does not possess all free products. The author shows that all free products exist within a given e-variety \({\mathcal V}\) if and only if \({\mathcal V}\) is comprised either of locally inverse semigroups or of \(E\)-solid semigroups. In fact it turns out that outside these two cases no nontrivial free products can exist at all. This parallels the situation involving the existence of all `bifree' semigroups in \({\mathcal V}\), according to \textit{Y. T. Yeh} [Int. J. Algebra Comput. 2, No. 4, 471-484 (1992; Zbl 0765.20030)]\ and, not surprisingly, invokes some of the ideas of that paper.
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existence varieties
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bifree semigroups
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regular semigroups
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free products
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e-varieties
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locally inverse semigroups
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\(E\)-solid semigroups
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