On epiorthodox semigroups. (Q554782)

Summary: It is well known that the band of idempotents of a naturally ordered orthodox semigroup satisfying the ``strong Dubreil-Jacotin condition'' forms a normal band. In the literature, the naturally ordered orthodox semigroups satisfying the strong Dubreil-Jacotin condition were first considered by \textit{T. S. Blyth} and \textit{M. H. Almeida Santos} in 1992 [Commun. Algebra 20, No. 4, 1167-1199 (1992; Zbl 0758.06012)]. Based on the name ``epigroup'' in the paper of Blyth and Almeida Santos and also the name ``epigroups'' proposed by Shevrin in 1995, we now call the naturally ordered orthodox semigroups satisfying the Dubreil-Jacotin condition the epiorthodox semigroups. Because the structure of this kind of orthodox semigroups has not yet been described, we therefore give a structure theorem for the epiorthodox semigroups.