On sofic monoids

DOI10.1007/S00233-014-9596-XMaRDI QIDQ2340372zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michel Coornaert, Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein

Publication date 16 April 2015

Published in Semigroup Forum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4919

zbMATH Keywords

bicyclic monoidsofic monoidamenable monoidresidually finite monoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Mappings of semigroups (20M15)

Abstract: We investigate the notion of soficity for monoids. A group is sofic as a group if and only if it is sofic as a monoid. All finite monoids, all commutative monoids, all free monoids, all cancellative one-sided amenable monoids, all multiplicative monoids of matrices over a field, and all monoids obtained by adjoining an identity element to a semigroup without identity element are sofic. On the other hand, although the question of the existence of a non-sofic group remains open, we prove that the bicyclic monoid is not sofic. This shows that there exist finitely presented amenable inverse monoids that are non-sofic.

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