On a characterization of monounary algebras by their endomorphism semigroups (Q871628)

A monounary algebra is said to be monogenic if it is generated by a single-element set and it is called metamonogenic if it is a union of a strictly increasing sequence of monogenic monounary algebras. For a monounary algebra \(A\) and an endomorphism \(g\) of \(A\), the power of the set of all metamonogenic subalgebras from \(g(A)\) is defined to be the algebraic rank of \(g\). In the paper, connected monounary algebras which have no cyclic elements and no sources are dealt with. The main result of the paper is a characterization (up to isomorphism) of a monounary algebra by its endomorphism semigroup (in detail, by the system \(G_{\mu}\), \(\mu\) being a cardinal, where \(G_{\mu}\) is the set of all endomorphisms with an algebraic rank at most \(\mu\)).