The Bergman-Shelah preorder on transformation semigroups

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Abstract: Let atat be the semigroup of all mappings on the natural numbers at, and let U and V be subsets of atat. We write UpreccurlyeqV if there exists a countable subset C of atat such that U is contained in the subsemigroup generated by V and C. We give several results about the structure of the preorder preccurlyeq. In particular, we show that a certain statement about this preorder is equivalent to the Continuum Hypothesis. The preorder preccurlyeq is analogous to one introduced by Bergman and Shelah on subgroups of the symmetric group on at. The results in this paper suggest that the preorder on subsemigroups of atat is much more complicated than that on subgroups of the symmetric group.









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