Beyond wreath and block

Abstract

We investigate a semigroup construction generalising the two-sided wreath product. We develop the foundations of this construction and show that for groups it is isomorphic to the usual wreath product. We also show that it gives a slightly finer version of the decomposition in the Krohn-Rhodes Theorem, in which the three-element flip-flop monoid is replaced by the two-element semilattice.

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