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On hopfian cofinite subsemigroups

Group Theory 2013-07-29 v1

Abstract

If a finitely generated semigroup S has a hopfian (meaning: every surjective endomorphism is an automorphism) cofinite subsemigroup T then S is hopfian too. This no longer holds if S is not finitely generated. There exists a finitely generated hopfian semigroup S with a non-hopfian subsemigroup T such that S\T has size 1.

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@article{arxiv.1307.6929,
  title  = {On hopfian cofinite subsemigroups},
  author = {Victor Maltcev and N. Ruskuc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.6929},
  year   = {2013}
}
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