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Decomposition of a locally associative LA-semigroup. (English) Zbl 0682.20049
We show that any locally associative LA-semigroup S with left identity is uniquely expressible as a semilattice of archimedean components. Also we show that S is separative if and only if the archimedean components of S are cancellative and that S can be embedded in a union of groups if and only if it is separative.
Reviewer: Q.Mushtaq

##### MSC:
 20M99 Semigroups 20M10 General structure theory of semigroups
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