Rings related to completely 0-simple semigroups

Abstract

A.H. Clifford ([2], [3]) has shown that all finite dimensional irreducible representations of a completely 0-simple semigroup can be obtained as extensions of those of its maximal subgroups. Lallement and Petrich, [7], have given an alternative method for constructing the irreducible representations of a finite 0-simple semigroup from its Schutzenberger representation ([13]). Using the form which they obtain for the irreducible representations of a finite 0-simple semigroup S = M0(G; m, n; P), Lallement and Petrich show that where M is the Munn algebra isomorphic to the (contracted) algebra Φ(S) of S over Φ.