Lengths of words in transformation semigroups generated by digraphs
(2016)
Journal Article
Cameron, P. J., Castillo-Ramirez, A., Gadouleau, M., & Mitchell, J. D. (2017). Lengths of words in transformation semigroups generated by digraphs. Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, 45(1), 149-170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-016-0703-9
Given a simple digraph D on n vertices (with n≥2n≥2 ), there is a natural construction of a semigroup of transformations ⟨D⟩⟨D⟩ . For any edge (a, b) of D, let a→ba→b be the idempotent of rank n−1n−1 mapping a to b and fixing all vertices other than... Read More about Lengths of words in transformation semigroups generated by digraphs.