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arXiv · 1510.08666

Twisted Brauer monoids

Abstract

We investigate the structure of the twisted Brauer monoid $\mathcal B_n^\tau$, comparing and contrasting it to the structure of the (untwisted) Brauer monoid $\mathcal B_n$. We characterise Green's relations and pre-orders on $\mathcal B_n^\tau$, describe the lattice of ideals, and give necessary and sufficient conditions for an ideal to be idempotent-generated. We obtain formulae for the rank (smallest size of a generating set) and (where applicable) the idempotent rank (smallest size of an idempotent generating set) of each principal ideal; in particular, when an ideal is idempotent-generated, its rank and idempotent rank are equal. As an application of our results, we also describe the idempotent-generated subsemigroup of $\mathcal B_n^\tau$ (which is not an ideal) as well as the singular ideal of $\mathcal B_n^\tau$ (which is neither principal nor idempotent-generated), and we deduce a result of Maltcev and Mazorchuk that the singular part of the Brauer monoid $\mathcal B_n$ is idempotent-generated.

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Igor Dolinka, James East. 2015-10-29. Twisted Brauer monoids. https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08666

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