Semigroup actions, covering spaces and Schützenberger groups.

DOI10.1007/S00233-010-9238-XzbMATH Open1208.20061arXiv0905.4888OpenAlexW1992702366MaRDI QIDQ5962329FDOQ5962329

Benjamin Steinberg

Publication date: 22 September 2010

Published in: Semigroup Forum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We associate a 2-complex to the following data: a presentation of a semigroup $S$ and a transitive action of $S$ on a set $V$ by partial transformations. The automorphism group of the action acts properly discontinuously on this 2-complex. A sufficient condition is given for the 2-complex to be simply connected. As a consequence we obtain simple topological proofs of results on presentations of Sch"utzenberger groups. We also give a geometric proof that a finitely generated regular semigroup with finitely many idempotents has polynomial growth if and only if all its maximal subgroups are virtually nilpotent.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.4888

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zbMATH Keywords

transitive actionscovering spaces2-complexessemigroup presentationspartial actionsSchützenberger groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Representation of semigroups; actions of semigroups on sets (20M30) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05)

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