Free inverse monoids are not FP₂

DOI10.5802/CRMATH.247MaRDI QIDQ6335073arXivFDO

Authors R. Gray, Benjamin Steinberg

Publication date 18 February 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.5802/CRMATH.247

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05) Inverse semigroups (20M18) Connections of semigroups with homological algebra and category theory (20M50)

arXiv classification

math.ATmath.GRmath.RA

Abstract: We give a topological proof that a free inverse monoid on one or more generators is neither of type left-$F{P}_2$ nor right-$F{P}_2$. This strengthens a classical result of Schein that such monoids are not finitely presented as monoids.

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