The Rank of the Endomorphism Monoid of a Uniform Partition
Araújo, João; Schneider, Csaba
Semigroup Froum, 78(3) (2009), 498-510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00233-008-9122-0
The rank of a semigroup is the cardinality of a smallest generating set. In this paper we compute the rank of the endomorphism monoid of a non-trivial uniform partition of a finite set, that is, the semigroup of those transformations of a finite set that leave a non-trivial uniform partition invariant. That involves proving that the rank of a wreath product of two symmetric groups is two and then use the fact that the endomorphism monoid of a partition is isomorphic to a wreath product of two full transformation semigroups. The calculation of the rank of these semigroups solves an open question.
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