Yet Another Solution to the Burnside Problem for Matrix Semigroups

DOI10.4153/CMB-2011-030-1MaRDI QIDQ3119032zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Benjamin Steinberg

Publication date 7 March 2012

Published in Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.2541, http://cms.math.ca/10.4153/CMB-2011-030-1

zbMATH Keywords

Burnside problemfinitely generated periodic semigroupsfiniteness conditions for semigroupskernel categoriessemigroups of matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05) Semigroups of transformations, relations, partitions, etc. (20M20)

Abstract: We use the kernel category to give a finiteness condition for semigroups. As a consequence we provide yet another proof that finitely generated periodic semigroups of matrices are finite.

Cited in

(3)

• On the Burnside problem for semigroups of matrices in the \((\max,+)\) algebra
• Matrix Mortality and the Černý-Pin Conjecture
• On the size of finite rational matrix semigroups

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