Gradedness of the set of rook placements in A n−1

A rook placement is a subset of a root system consisting of positive roots with pairwise non-positive inner products. To each rook placement in a root system one can assign the coadjoint orbit of the Borel subgroup of a reductive algebraic group with this root system. Degenerations of such orbits induce a natural partial order on the set of rook placements. We study combinatorial structure of the set of rook placements in An− 1 with respect to a slightly different order and prove that this poset is graded.

A ∗-prehomomorphism of a type B semigroup

Type B semigroups are generalizations of inverse semigroups, and every inverse semigroup admits an [Formula: see text]-unitary cover (M. Petrich, Inverse Semigroups (Wiley, New York, 1984)). Motivated by studying [Formula: see text]-unitary cover for inverse semigroups, and as a continuation of Petrich’s works in inverse semigroups, in this paper, we first introduce the concept of ∗-prehomomorphism of a type B semigroup. After obtaining some basic properties, we get some structure theorems and give some conditions for a type B semigroup which is constructed by using the ∗-prehomomorphism to be proper. In particular, we introduce the notion of [Formula: see text]-unitary good cover for an abundant semigroup, and prove that every type B semigroup with compatible natural partial order admits an [Formula: see text]-unitary good cover.

On the monoid of cofinite partial isometries of $\qq{N}^n$ with the usual metric

In this paper we study the structure of the monoid Iℕn ∞ of cofinite partial isometries of the n-th power of the set of positive integers ℕ with the usual metric for a positive integer n > 2. We describe the group of units and the subset of idempotents of the semigroup Iℕn ∞, the natural partial order and Green's relations on Iℕn ∞. In particular we show that the quotient semigroup Iℕn ∞/Cmg, where Cmg is the minimum group congruence on Iℕn ∞, is isomorphic to the symmetric group Sn and D = J in Iℕn ∞. Also, we prove that for any integer n ≥2 the semigroup Iℕn ∞ is isomorphic to the semidirect product Sn ×h(P∞(Nn); U) of the free semilattice with the unit (P∞(Nn); U) by the symmetric group Sn.

Interval-type theorems concerning means

Each family ℳ of means has a natural, partial order (point-wise order), that is M ≤ N iff M(x) ≤ N(x) for all admissible x. In this setting we can introduce the notion of interval-type set (a subset ℐ ⊂ℳ such that whenever M ≤ P ≤ N for some M, N ∈ℐ and P ∈ℳ then P ∈ℐ). For example, in the case of power means there exists a natural isomorphism between interval-type sets and intervals contained in real numbers. Nevertheless there appear a number of interesting objects for a families which cannot be linearly ordered. In the present paper we consider this property for Gini means and Hardy means. Moreover, some results concerning L∞ metric among (abstract) means will be obtained.

Embedding the set of nondivisorial ideals of a numerical semigroup into ℕn

The set [Formula: see text] of the classes of nondivisorial ideals of a numerical semigroup [Formula: see text] can be endowed with a natural partial order induced by the set of star operations on [Formula: see text]. We study embeddings of [Formula: see text] into [Formula: see text], specializing on three families of numerical semigroups with radically different behavior.