Left orders in regular ℋ-Semigroups II

Abstract

We make the convention that if a is an element of a semigroup Q then by writing a–1 it is implicit that a lies in a subgroup of Q and has inverse a–1 in this subgroup; equivalently, a ℋ a2 and a–1 is the inverse of a in Ha.A subsemigroup S of a semigroup Q is a left order in Q and Q is a semigroup of left quotients of S if every element of Q can be written as a–1b where a, b ∈ S and, in addition, every element of S satisfying a weak cancellation condition which we call square-cancellable lies in a subgroup of Q. The notions of right order and semigroup of right quotients are defined dually; if S is both a left order and a right order in Q then S is an order in Q and Q is a semigroup of quotients of S.