On groups of units of special and one-relator inverse monoids

Gray, Robert D. and Ruškuc, Nik (2024) On groups of units of special and one-relator inverse monoids. Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, 23 (4). pp. 1875-1918. ISSN 1474-7480

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Abstract

We investigate the groups of units of one-relator and special inverse monoids. These are inverse monoids which are defined by presentations, where all the defining relations are of the form r=1. We develop new approaches for finding presentations for the group of units of a special inverse monoid, and apply these methods to give conditions under which the group admits a presentation with the same number of defining relations as the monoid. In particular, our results give sufficient conditions for the group of units of a one-relator inverse monoid to be a one-relator group. When these conditions are satisfied, these results give inverse semigroup theoretic analogues of classical results of Adjan for one-relator monoids, and Makanin for special monoids. In contrast, we show that in general these classical results do not hold for one-relator and special inverse monoids. In particular, we show that there exists a one-relator special inverse monoid whose group of units is not a one-relator group (with respect to any generating set), and we show that there exists a finitely presented special inverse monoid whose group of units is not finitely presented.

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Additional Information: Funding information: This research of R. D. Gray was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council projects EP/N033353/1 “Special inverse monoids: subgroups, structure, geometry, rewriting systems and the word problem”, and EP/V032003/1 "Algorithmic, topological and geometric aspects of infinite groups, monoids and inverse semigroups”.
Uncontrolled Keywords: coherence,inverse monoid,one-relator group,one-relator monoid,right units,special inverse monoid,units,mathematics(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2600
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Mathematics (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Logic (former - to 2024)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Algebra and Combinatorics (former - to 2024)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Algebra, Logic & Number Theory
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Date Deposited: 11 Oct 2023 01:16
Last Modified: 07 Nov 2024 12:47
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93241
DOI: 10.1017/S1474748023000439

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