On the Ranks of Semigroups of Transformations on a Finite Set with Restricted Range
Let [Formula: see text] be the semigroup of all partial transformations on X, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] be the subsemigroups of [Formula: see text] of all full transformations on X and of all injective partial transformations on X, respectively. Given a non-empty subset Y of X, let [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. In 2008, Sanwong and Sommanee described the largest regular subsemigroup and determined Green's relations of [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we present analogous results for both [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. For a finite set X with |X| ≥ 3, the ranks of [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are well known to be 4, 3 and 3, respectively. In this paper, we also compute the ranks of [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] for any proper non-empty subset Y of X.