User Tools

Site Tools


seminars:comb:abstract.202003don

Speaker: Casey Donoven (Binghamton)

Title: Intersection Numbers and Minimal Subbases

Combinatorics Seminar,

Given a finite semigroup $S$, define $\Phi(S)$ to be the intersection of all maximal subsemigroups of $S$, also known as the Frattini subsemigroup of $S$. The intersection number of $S$ is the minimum number of maximal subsemigroups whose intersection is $\Phi(S)$. I will speak about a particular example of a semigroup with an interesting intersection number. In this example, the intersection number is equivalent to the minimum size of a subbasis of the discrete topology on a finite set, which is known.

seminars/comb/abstract.202003don.txt · Last modified: 2020/05/17 22:25 by zaslav