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P J Allen1, Hee Sik Kim2, J Neggers1
1Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama, 35487-0350 Tuscaloosa, AL USA.
Abstract:
In this paper, we introduce the concept of several types of groupoids related to semigroups, viz., twisted semigroups for which twisted versions of the associative law hold. Thus, if [Formula: see text] is a groupoid and if [Formula: see text] is a function [Formula: see text], then [Formula: see text] is a left-twisted semigroup with respect to [Formula: see text] if for all [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]. Other types are right-twisted, middle-twisted and their duals, a dual left-twisted semigroup obeying the rule [Formula: see text] for all [Formula: see text]. Besides a number of examples and a discussion of homomorphisms, a class of groupoids of interest is the class of groupoids defined over a field [Formula: see text] via a formula [Formula: see text], with [Formula: see text], fixed structure constants. Properties of these groupoids as twisted semigroups are discussed with several results of interest obtained, e.g., that in this setting simultaneous left-twistedness and right-twistedness of [Formula: see text] implies the fact that [Formula: see text] is a semigroup.
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