A combinatorial property of ideals in free profinite monoids.

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2009.12.014zbMATH Open1203.20052arXiv0811.1274OpenAlexW2083924351MaRDI QIDQ964524FDOQ964524

Authors: Benjamin Steinberg 

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove every regular element of a free profinite monoid generates a prime ideal; in particular the minimal ideal is prime. The latter result was first proved by Almeida and Volkov using techniques from symbolic dynamics; our proof is elementary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1274

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zbMATH Keywords

prime idealsaperiodic monoidsminimal idealsidempotent idealsprincipal idealspseudovarieties of finite monoidsrelatively free profinite monoidsHenckell-Schützenberger expansions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ideal theory for semigroups (20M12) Structure of topological semigroups (22A15) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05) Varieties and pseudovarieties of semigroups (20M07) Semigroups in automata theory, linguistics, etc. (20M35)

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