Natural dualities, nilpotence and projective planes

DOI10.1007/S00012-015-0340-5zbMATH Open1350.08008arXiv1406.3455OpenAlexW2114207213MaRDI QIDQ494622FDOQ494622

Authors: Marcel Jackson 

Publication date: 1 September 2015

Published in: Algebra Universalis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use an interpretation of projective planes to show the inherent nondualisability of some finite semigroups. The method is sufficiently flexible to demonstrate the nondualisability of (asymptotically) almost all finite semigroups as well as to give a fresh proof of the Quackenbush-Szab'o result that any finite group with a nonabelian Sylow subgroup is nondualisable. A novel feature is that the ostensibly different notions of nilpotence for semigroups, nilpotence for groups, and the property of being nonorthodox for a completely 0-simple semigroup are unified by way of a single construction. We also give a semigroup example of two dualisable finite semigroups whose direct product is inherently nondualisable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3455

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zbMATH Keywords

semigroupnatural dualityprojective planequasivarietynilpotent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent groups (20F18) Natural dualities for classes of algebras (08C20) Varieties and pseudovarieties of semigroups (20M07) Regular semigroups (20M17)

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