Semigroup Congruences and Subsemigroups of the Direct Square

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author Barber, Callum
Ruškuc, Nik
author_facet Barber, Callum
Ruškuc, Nik
contents We investigate semigroups $S$ which have the property that every subsemigroup of $S\times S$ which contains the diagonal $\{ (s,s)\colon s\in S\}$ is necessarily a congruence on $S$. We call such $S$ a DSC semigroup. It is well known that all finite groups are DSC, and easy to see that every DSC semigroup must be simple. Building on this, we show that for broad classes of semigroups -- including periodic, stable, inverse and several well-known types of simple semigroups -- the only DSC members are groups. However, it turns out that there exist non-group DSC semigroups, which we obtain utilising a construction introduced by Byleen for the purpose of constructing interesting congruence-free semigroups. Such examples can additionally be regular or bisimple.
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spellingShingle Semigroup Congruences and Subsemigroups of the Direct Square
Barber, Callum
Ruškuc, Nik
Rings and Algebras
Group Theory
20M10, 08A30, 20M12
We investigate semigroups $S$ which have the property that every subsemigroup of $S\times S$ which contains the diagonal $\{ (s,s)\colon s\in S\}$ is necessarily a congruence on $S$. We call such $S$ a DSC semigroup. It is well known that all finite groups are DSC, and easy to see that every DSC semigroup must be simple. Building on this, we show that for broad classes of semigroups -- including periodic, stable, inverse and several well-known types of simple semigroups -- the only DSC members are groups. However, it turns out that there exist non-group DSC semigroups, which we obtain utilising a construction introduced by Byleen for the purpose of constructing interesting congruence-free semigroups. Such examples can additionally be regular or bisimple.
title Semigroup Congruences and Subsemigroups of the Direct Square
topic Rings and Algebras
Group Theory
20M10, 08A30, 20M12
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02428