On the Structure of Inverse Semigroup Amalgams

Abstract

This paper is the second of two papers devoted to the study of amalgamated free products of inverse semigroups. We use the characterization of the Schützenberger automata given previously by the author to obtain structural results and preservational properties of lower bounded amalgams. Haataja, Margolis and Meakin have shown that if [S1,S2;U is an amalgam of regular semigroups in which S1∩ S2=U is a full regular subsemigroup of S1 and S2, then the maximal subgroups of the amalgamated free product S1*U S2 may be described by the fundamental groups of certain bipartite graphs of groups. In this paper we show that the maximal subgroups of a lower bounded amalgam [S1,S2;U] are either isomorphic copies of subgroups of S1 and S2 or can be described by the same Bass-Serre theory characterization. It follows, as for the regular case, that if S1 and S2 are combinatorial, then the maximal subgroups of S1*U S2 are free. By studying the endomorphism monoids of the Schützenberger graphs we obtain a number of results concerning when inverse semigroup properties are preserved under the amalgamated free product construction. For example, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for S1*U S2 to be completely semisimple. Under a mild assumption we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for S1*U S2 to have finite ℛ-classes. This enables us to reprove a result of Cherubini, Meakin and Piochi on amalgams of free inverse semigroups. Finally we give sufficient conditions for S1*U S2 to be E-unitary.