Abstract
In an earlier paper (5) a description was given in set-theoretic terms of the semigroup generated by the idempotents of a full transformation semigroup , one of the results being that if X is finite then every element of that is not bijective is expressible as a product of idempotents. In view of this it was natural to ask whether by analogy every singular square matrix is expressibleas a product of idempotent matrices. This is indeed the case, as was shown by J. A. Erdos (2). Magill (6) has considered products of idempotents in thesemigroup of all continuous self-maps of a topological space X, but a comparable characterization of products of idempotents in this case appears to be extremelydifficult, and no solution is available yet.
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