Semigroup theory and its applications proceedings of the 1994 conference commemorating the work of Alfred H. Clifford

This volume contains survey papers by the invited speakers at the Conference on Semigroup Theory and Its Applications which took place at Tulane University in April, 1994. The authors represent the leading areas of research in semigroup theory and its applications, both to other areas of mathematics...

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Other Authors: Clifford, A. H. (Editor), Hofmann, Karl Heinrich (Editor), Mislove, Michael W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996
Series:London Mathematical Society lecture note series
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Reminiscences of a friendship / D.D. Miller
  • A.H. Clifford's work on unions of groups / Gordon Preston
  • A survey on totally ordered semigroups / Karl H. Hofmann and Jimmie D. Lawson
  • The relationship of Al Clifford's work to the current theory of semigroups / John Rhodes
  • Bands of semigroups: variations on a Clifford Theme / Boris M. Schein
  • Isbell's zigzag theorem and its consequences / John M. Howie
  • Maps implicit in the Jordan-Holder theorem / Andrew M. Gleason
  • Finite semigroups as categories, ordered semigroups or compact semigroups / Jean-Eric Pin
  • Principles underlying the degeneracy of models of the untyped lambda calculus / Karl H. Hofmann and Michael W. Mislove
  • Special involutions / W.D. Munn