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Bicyclic semirings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Martha O. Bertman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Clarkson College Potsdam, New York 13676 U.S.A.
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Abstract

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Let Bp be the bicyclic semigroup over P=G⋒[1,∞ where G is a subgroup of the multiplicative group of positive real numbers. If + is an addition which makes Bp, with its usual multiplication, into a semiring, then + is idempotent, and P is embedded as a sub-semiring in Bp and for each x in p, 1≦x+1≦x and 1≦1+x≦x. We show that any idempotent addition on P with these inequalities holding is max, min or trivial. The trivial addition on P extends trivially. If addition on P is min, then let , and . We charactertize all additions on Bp in terms of U and U′; and, in particular If U=U′ is a proper subset of R1 we demonstrate a correspondence between all such additions and certain homomorphisms of G to (0,∞)

Subject classification (Amer. math. Soc. (MOS) 1970): primary 16 A 80; secondary 22 A 15.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1978

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