AUTOMORPHISMS OF ENDOMORPHISM MONOIDS OF RELATIVELY FREE BANDS

For a set $X$ and a variety $\mathcal{V}$ of bands, let $B_{\mathcal{V}}(X)$ be the relatively free band in $\mathcal{V}$ on $X$. For an arbitrary band variety $\mathcal{V}$ and an arbitrary set $X$, we determine the group of automorphisms of $\mathrm{End}(B_{\mathcal{V}}(X))$, the monoid of endomorphisms of $B_{\mathcal{V}}(X)$.

On quasi-F-orthodox semigroups

An orthodox semigroup S is termed quasi-F-orthodox if the greatest inverse semigroup homomorphic image of S1 is F-inverse. In this paper we show that each quasi-F-orthodox semigroup is embeddable into a semidirect product of a band by a group. Furthermore, we present a subclass in the class of quasi-F-orthodox semigroups whose members S are embeddable into a semidirect product of a band B by a group in such a way that B belongs to the band variety generated by the band of idempotents in S. In particular, this subclass contains the F-orthodox semigroups and the idempotent pure homomorphic images of the bifree orthodox semigroups.

A NEW STRANGE ATTRACTOR IN THREE DIMENSIONS

We investigate a set of three simple difference equations in three variables with one free parameter. As the parameter increases from zero, iteration of the equations results in a bifurcation pathway leading to chaos and a strange attractor. The attractor is of the twisted band variety, reminiscent of that of Rössler, though it differs from the latter by the fact that it arises from iteration of a set of pure difference equations, as opposed to a numerical algorithm applied to differential equations.

ON E-UNITARY COVERS OF ORTHODOX SEMIGROUPS

In this paper we prove that each orthodox semigroup S has an E-unitary cover embeddable into a semidirect product of a band B by a group where B belongs to the band variety generated by the band of idempotents in S. This result is related to an embeddability question on E-unitary regular semigroups raised previously.