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Structure theory of regular semigroups. (English) Zbl 1480.20134

Summary: This survey aims to give an overview of several substantial developments of the last 50 years in the structure theory of regular semigroups and to shed light on their impact on other parts of semigroup theory.

MSC:

20M17 Regular semigroups
20M10 General structure theory for semigroups

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