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Semigroup Forum Vol. 34 (1987) 253-285 9 1987 Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

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COMPLETIONS FOR PARTIALLY ORDERED SEMIGROUPS M.Ern~ and J.Z.Reichman Communicated by K.H. Ho~nann

ABSTRACT A standard completion Y assigns a closure system to each partially ordered set in such a way that the point closures are precisely the (order-theoretical) principal ideals. If S is a partially ordered semigroup such that all left and all right translations are Y-continuous (i.e., Y 6 YS implies { x 6 S : y.x 6 Y } E YS and { x 6 S : x.y 6 Y } E YS for all y E S ), then S is called a Y-semigroup. If S is a Y-semigroup, then the completion YS is a complete residuated semigroup, and the canonical principal ideal embedding of S in ~S is a semigroup homomorphism. We investigate the universal properties of Y-semigroup completions and find that under rather weak conditions on Y, the category of complete residuated semigroups is a reflective subcategory of the category of Y-semigroups. Our results apply, for example, to the Dedekind-MacNeille completion by cuts, but also to certain join-completions associated with so-called "subset systems". Related facts are derived for conditional completions.

O. INTRODUCTION Various completions of partially ordered semigroups occur sporadically in the literature. Perhaps the best known is the Dedekind-MacNeille completion by cuts (see, for example, [ 3 ] , [ 5 ] , [ 1 5 ] ) , but also various types of "join-completions" are of interest. Some of them are studied in [2],[4],[13],[18],[19],[20],[21]. Both the constructions and the derived results often show a significant similarity; hence i t appears now to be high time to furnish the common background and to develop a unifying theory of completions for partially ordered semigroups, including the categorical aspects of such completions. Some of the primary ideas are indicated in the book of Fuchs [15], and the purely

ERNE AND REICHMAN order-theoretic foundations of a general completion theory have been provided to some extent in [9] and [11], so a brief survey on the main facts will suffice for our present purposes (see Section I). Let V be any standard comPletion, that is, a function assigning to every partially ordered set P (resp. po-semigroup S )a closure system of lower sets that contains all principal ideals. Basic for our investigations will be the category SV of V-semigroups and V-continuous semigroup homomorphisms, where a map f between posets P and P' is V-continuous i f f-1[y,] E VP for all Y' E VP', and a V-semi~roup is a po-semigroup whose translations are V-continuous. Apparently, these notions have both topological and order-theoretical applications, and a collection of typical examples is presented at the beginning of Section 2. Many standard completions V occurring in practise share the following useful property: every weakly V-continuous map, that is, every map f :

P ~ P' such that inverse images of principal ideals belong toVP,

is already V-continuous. This is true, for example, of the MacNeille completion by cuts, the completion by Frink ideals [14], the Aleksandrov completion by lower sets~and the completion by Scott closed sets. Standard completions V with this property are called compositive, because the class of weakly V-continuous maps is closed under composition. For any compositive standard completion V, we can prove that i t gives rise to a reflector from the category SV to the subcategory s

of complete residuated semi~roups (c_~l-semi~roups in the sense of

Birkhoff [3]; see 2.14). I f

V fails to be compositive (examples are

given in [9] and [11]) then the situation becomes a bit more complicated, and we must replace s with the category ST{ of so-called V-semi~roup cgmpletions. Its objects(!) are join-dense weakly V-continuous embeddings e: S ~ C of V-semigroups S in complete residuated semigroups C (these embeddings need not be V-continuous I).A morphism between two such $~s

e: S ~ C and e ' : S' ~ C' is

then, as one expects, a join-preserving semigroup homomorphism c : C ~C'

such that the "restriction"

co = ~-I o coe : S ~ S'

is V-continuous. Our main result in Section 2 is Theorem 2.8, stating that the domain functor from S7s to $V has a l e f t adjoint right inverse 7. On the object level, the "completion" functor ~ assigns to any V-semigroup S the natural principal ideal embedding

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x ~ +x = { y E S: y ~ x } .

In case of a compositive standard completion map associated with the reflector

V, qS is the reflection

V: $V ~ C$ . Hence, nS or VS,

respectively, may be regarded as the free V-completion of S. Almost every standard completion V occurring in concrete situations is isomorphism-closed, i . e . , every order isomorphism is V-continuous (of course, this property is much weaker than compositivity). For such completions V, the objects of the category

$~C

may be replaced

with concrete V-completions, i.e. pairs (S,C) where C is a complete residuated semigroup and S is a V-subsemigroup, that is, a V-semigroup with respect to induced order and multiplication such that the inclusion S~-*C is weakly V-continuous. The resulting adjunction theorem is formulated in 2.9. For ordered algebraic structures like groups or cancellative semigroups, etc., one knows that they never can be complete (unless being t r i v i a l ) , so that only conditional completions are of interest. Therefore we study this type of modified completions in Section 3, and i t turns out that one has to be very careful when passing from standard completions V to their conditional modifications not hard to see that

V~

I t is

V~ is compositive whenever V is (3.3); but the

corresponding adjunction theorem (see 3.7) only works when V is conditionable, i.e. the inclusion maps V~ ~ VP are (weakly) V-continuous - a condition which is violated, for example, i f

V is Frink's

ideal completion, while the Dedekind-MacNeille completion by cuts turns out to be conditionable (3.4). Moreover, we can prove that all join-ideal completions arising from so-called subset systems are conditionable (3.8), and these special cases already give a lot of applications, for example to the Aleksandrov completion by lower sets, to the join-completion in the sense of Bishop [4], and to the Scott completion studied by Rosenthal [20] Some of our investigations are closely related to Aubert's fundamental theory of x-ideals [0]. In fact, i f

V is any standard comple-

tion and S is a V-semigroup then VS (resp. the corresponding closure operator) is an x-system in the sense of Aubert, provided the members of

VS are invariant under translations. Moreover, the par-

tial order is uniquely determined by VS. Thanks are due to Professor Bosbach for having called the author's attention to Aubert's paper.

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ERNE AND REICHMAN 1. STANDARD COMPLETIONS FOR PARTIALLY ORDERED SETS The theory of standard completions originated with B.Banaschewski [ I ] and J.Schmidt [21]. A systematic analysis of such completions in a suitable categorical framework has been developed in [ 2 ] , [ 9 ] , and I l l ] . Let us recall some of the basic order-theoretic concepts. For any subset X of a poset P with order relation ~, define +X, the down set of X, by +X : = { y E P: there exists an x E X with y < x } . A subset Y with ~x = +{x} ,

Y = +Y is a lower set (or lower end). The sets x EP ,

are called principal ideals. Thus, arbitrary unions of principal ideals are lower sets. The collection of a l l principal ideals of

P is

denoted by MP, and that of a l l lower sets by AP. A standard extension V is an assignment to each poset P of a collection VP of subsets of P with MPc VP c AP. I f

V is a standard extension and i f

each VP is a closure system ( i . e . , closed under arbitrary intersection) then V is referred to as a standard completion. The greatest standard completion is the Aleksandrov completion A by lower sets, and the smallest standard completion is the Dedekind-MacNeille completion or normal completion N, where NP is the collection of all cuts, i . e . , intersections of principal ideals. For each subset X of P, AX = A { + Y : Y E P, X ~ +y} is the cut generated by X, and NP = { 6X : X c p } . A map f : P ~ P' for a l l all

x,y E P,

for a l l

between posets P and P' is said to be isotone i f

x,y E P, x ~ y implies f ( x ) ~ f ( y ) , an embedding i f for x ~y

said to be residuated for a l l

f(x)

is equivalent to

f(x) ~ f ( y ) , and join dense i f

y' E P ' , y' = s u p f [ f - 1 [ + y ' ] ] . Furthermore, f :

P ~ P'

is

i f there exists a map g: P' ~ P such that

x E P and x' E P ' , =< x'

iff

x =< g(x') .

In this case, f and g are isotone maps which uniquely determine each other;

f is called the lower (or l e f t ) adjoint of g, and g i s

called the upper (or right) adjoint of f . Notice that f

is residu-

ated i f f inverse images of principal ideals under f are again prin256

ERNE AND REICHMAN cipal ideals. The following weaker property is of fundamental importance f o r the study of standard extensions. Given an a r b i t r a r y standard extension V, a function tinuous

i f for all

f-lily,]

f:

P ~ P'

is said to be weakly V-con-

y' E P ' ,

E VP ,

and V-continuous

i f for all

Y' E VP',

f - i [ y , ] E VP . Note that "(weakly) M-continuous" means "residuated" while "(weakly) A-continuous" means "isotone". A residuated map is always weakly Vcontinuous, but i t need not be V-continuous! Clearly, all identity maps are V-continuous and the composition of V-continuous maps is again V-continuous. We may thus speak of the category ~V of posets and V-continuous maps. A standard extension

V is called compositive

i f the class of all

weakly V-continuous maps is closed under composition. I t has been demonstrated in [9,2.5] that this is tantamount to saying that each weakly V-continuous map is already V-continuous. The largest standard completion A and the smallest standard completion N are compositive. Many further examples of compositive (and also of non-compositive) standard extensions are to be found in [9]. A slightly weaker condition than compositivity is union completeness. A standard extension V is union complete provided X E VVP implies

U X E VP for each poset

P . As observed in [9,2.2], this condition is f u l f i l l e d i f f the embeddings n p : P ~ VP ,

x ~ +x

are V-continuous (qp is weakly V-continuous for arbitrary standard extensions

V). Notice that qp preserves arbitrary meets whereas

joins are not, in general, preserved. If

V is a standard completion then every subset X of a poset P is

contained in a smallest member of VP, denoted by X- and called the (V-)closure of X. I f

X has a join in P

then this is also the join

of X- (and conversely), because VP contains all principal ideals. Furthermore, V-continuity of a map f :

P ~ P'

may be characterized,

as in the context of topological spaces, by the property f[X-] c f [ X ] -

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Many standard completions arise as so-called ideal completions. Let Z be an arbitrary assignment to each poset P of a collection

ZP of

subsets of P (not necessarily lower sets). Then we may define two standard extensions

ZA and Zv by setting

ZAP = MP U { ~Z : Z E ZP } , Z P = { Z E zAP: Z has a join in P}. v The collection zVP = {Y E AP: i f

Z c Y and Z E Z P then supZE Y} --

V

defines a standard completion Zv , the join-idea] completion

associ-

ated with Z. A related standard completion is the A-ideal completion ZA (in [9] denoted by Z~) where ZAP = {Y E AP: i f Obviously,

Z c Y and Z E ZP then AZ c Y } .

ZAP is always contained in

zVP, and i f

P is Z-complete,

i . e . , each Z E ZP has a join, then ZAP coincides with

zVP.

Many authors call an assignment Z of the above type a subset system provided for all isotone maps f :

P ~ P'

and all

Z E ZP the image

f[Z] belongs to ZP' ( c f . [ 2 ] , [ 1 9 ] , [ 2 2 ] ) . In order to exclude inconvenient but t r i v i a l exceptions, one usually assumes (and we shall do so) that at least one ZP contains a nonempty member. This weak assumption already has the consequence that for each poset P, all singletons {x} with x E P belong to ZP, whence zAP = { @Z:Z E ZP }. I t follows from [9,4.1] that for any subset system Z of this kind, both Zv and ZA are compositive standard completions, while ZA is a compositive standard extension i f f i t is union complete (see also [11]). Three of the most important subset systems are P, F, and P, where PP is the collection of all subsets of P (power set), FP is the collection of all f i n i t e subsets of P, and PP is the collection of all directed subsets of P. (By a directed set we mean a subset D containing an upper bound of each f i n i t e subset of

D.) By definition,

pap is the collection AP of all lower sets, FAp consists of all f i n i t e l y generated lower sets, DAP consists of all directed lower sets.

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and O^ are compositive, hence union complete, but only

P~ = A is a standard completion. The join-completion 3 = pv has been studied by various authors,

and its categorical aspects have

been mentioned in several contexts (see, e.g., [ 4 ] , [ 1 3 ] , [ 1 8 ] , [ 2 1 ] ) . The join-ideal completion Fv frequently occurs in the setting of (join-semi-)lattices, where i t coincides with Frink's ideal completion FA (see [14]), while pA is the normal completion N. /pAp and Dv are topological closure systems (in general different, but equal for posets in which every directed subset has a j o i n ) . The corresponding topologies have been investigated in [7] and [12] (see also [16]). pv is often referred to as the Scott completion (see, for example, [10],[13] and also [20]). For a map f : C ~ C' lattices

between two complete

C and C ' , the following four conditions are equivalent:

(a)

f is residuated

(b)

f is N-continuous

(c)

f is ]-continuous

(d)

f preserves joins, i . e . , f(sup X)= supf[X] for all

X~ C.

More generally, for an arbitrary subset system Z, a map f : P ~ P' between posets P and P' is (weakly) zV-continuou.s i f f i t preserves Z-joins, i . e . , Z E ZP and x = supZ imply

f(x) = supf[Z]

(see [9,3.3] and [21]). Now suppose V is any standard completion. An important universal property of the maps n p : P ~ VP ,

x ~ Cx

was pointed out f i r s t by J.Schmidt [21]; this property plays a crucial role for many adjunction theorems in the theory of partially ordered sets. 1.1 PROPOSITION. (1) Amap g: P ~ C from a poset P into a complete lattice

C i s weakly V-continuous i f f there exists a unique j o i n -

preservin.~ map gv : VP ~ C with g = gV onp , viz 9 gV(y) = sup g[Y] (2) A map f : P ~ P'

between two posers P and P' is V-continu-

ous i f f there exists a uniq.ue join-preserving maR. h: VP ~ VP' with honp = q ~ o f , v.i.z, h = Vf with

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Vf(Y) = h[Y]

for all

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P ~

C

~p'

npJp . . . . . . . . .

gV

,, Jp, rip,

h = Vf

Denoting the category of complete lattices and join-preserving maps by { , we may regard V as a functor from the category ~V of posets and V-continuous maps to the category { . I f the completion V happens to be compositive then { is a subcategory of FV , and Proposition 1.1 shows that the inclusion

g ~ PV is a right adjoint to V, i . e . ,

{

is a reflective subcategory of FV , with reflection maps qp (cf.[9, 4.15] and [11,2.11]). However, for general standard completions V, the category { may even fail to be a subcategory of FV . An adequate substitute for C is then the category ~ {

of V-completions which is

defined as follows: The objects of ~ C are weakly V-continuous joindense embeddings of posets in complete lattices. A morphism between two V-completions e: P ~ C and e ' : P' ~ C' is a pair (Co,C) , where c is a join-preserving map c: C ~ C' and co is a V-continuous map from P to P' such that

c oe = e' o co . Notice that in this

equation co is uniquely determined by c and vice versa (see [11, Section 3]). With the help of 1.1 it is not hard to show that the forgetful functor with

Pe = domain of e for l~-~{-objects e

and

Pc = co for ]P~vC-morphisms c is right adjoint to the "completion" functor ~: PV ~ ~ g ~P = np for FV -objects

P

defined by

and

Vf = Vf for FV-morphisms f . This adjunction characterizes the canonical embeddings np as free V-completions in the following sense. For each V-completion e: P ~ C there is a unique join-preserving surjection e

:

e v onp

ev: VP ~ C such that

9

For further background on standard extensions, see [9] and [11].

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ERNEAND REICHMAN 2. COMPLETIONS FOR PARTIALLY ORDERED SEMIGROUPS We are now going to extend the completion theory alluded to in Section 1 and performed in [11] from posets to p a r t i a l l y ordered semigroups. For basic facts and terminology the reader is referred to the monographs [6] and [15]. For lattice-theoretical notions, see [3] and [17]. A po-semigrouP ( p a r t i a l l y ordered semigroup) is a semigroup S equipped with a partial order such that the l e f t translations lx : S ~S,

yHx.y

(x E S)

and the right translations r

: S ~S , x ~ x.y ( y E S) Y are isotone. More generally, given an arbitrary standard extension V, we call a semigroup together with a partial order a V-semi~roup i f l e f t and right translations are V-continuous (compare the notion of ideal systems in[15,V.17].) Of course, i f

S is a po-semigroup then

we put VS = VP where P is the underlying poset. I t w i l l not be necessary to distinguish between P and S. 2.1 EXAMPLES. ( I ) An A-semigroup is nothing but a po-semigroup. (2) M-semigroups are usually referred to as residuated semi~roups, in view of the fact that their translations are residuated. Thus a semigroup S equipped with a partial order ~ is residuated i f f there exist binary operations y < z "x m

iff

" and ". such that

x'y ~ z

iff

x < z ".y

( c f . [ 6 ] ) . Notice that the residuation operations

." and "

are u-

niquely determined by the multiplication 9 and the partial order relation ~. A residuated semigroup is Abelian i f f the operations

."

and ". agree. (3) I f

V is the join-completion J = pV (see Section 1) then a V-

semigroup S is characterized by the identities (V)

x-supZ= sup{x.z : z E Z } and SupZ.x = sup{z.x : z E Z }

for a l l subsets Z of S possessing a join. This condition is equivalent to: 261

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x : supX and y = supY imply x.y = sup{u.v : u E X , v E Y } .

Similarly, i f P P denotes, for any poset P, the collection of all o nonempty subsets of P then ]o = PVo is a join-ideal completion, and a ]o-semigroup is a po-semigroup such that (V) holds for all nonempty subsets Z possessing a join. Partially ordered semigroups with this property are also called lower semicontinuous (cf.[15,XI.7]). Recall that ]C = MC for every complete l a t t i c e

C. Hence a complete

semigroup is residuated i f f (V) holds for arbitrary subsets Z. (4) The examples in (3) can be generalized in the obvious way. Given an arbitrary subset system Z, i t is easy to see that the ZV-semigroups are those in which the identities (V) are valid for all subsets Z E ZS which have a join (use the fact that "Z-join preserving" means "ZV-continuous"). (5) In a join-semilattice

S, considered as a po-semigroup, the iden-

t i t i e s (V) hold for all nonempty subsets possessing a join. Thus every join-semilattice may be regarded as a ]o-semigroup. However, (V) fails for

Z = ~ unless x is the least element of S.

(6) Now suppose S is a meet-semilattice, considered as a po-semigroup. We discuss four special choices for (a)

V.

S is an M-semigroup i f f i t is a Brouwerian or relatively pseudo-

compl.emented semilattice ( c f . [ 3 ] , [ 6 ] ) . (b)

S is a PA-semigroup i f f i t is a distributive semilattice, i . e . ,

for all

x,y,z E S with XAy ~Z there exist xi ~ x and Yl ~ Y

such that x1^Yl = z ( c f . [ 8 ] , [ 1 7 ] ) . (Since this equivalence is not completely evident and seems to be widely unknown, we sketch a proof. Suppose S is a pA-semigroup, i . e . , each of the sets

M(x,z) =

{ y E S: xmy ~ z } is a directed (lower) set. Then x ^ y ~ z implies y,z E M(x,z) , so we find a Yl ~ y,z with

xAyl ~ z ; hence,

x,z E M(yl,z ), and there exists an element x I ~ x,z with

x i A y l ~ z;

but then x 1 ^ y l = z because x I ~ z and Yl ~ z . Conversely, assume S is distributive and choose y,y' E M(x,z). Then we find

x I ~ x and

Yl ~ Y with x I ^Yl = z . I t follows that z ~ Yl and thus x^ y' ~ Yl, so there exist x~ ~ x and y~ ~ y'

such that x ll a y l ! = Yl "Hence Yll

is a member of M(x,z) with y ~y~ and y' ~ y~. As z belongs to M(x,z) and M(x,z) is obviously a lower set, we obtain M(x,z) E pAS, and S is a I)A-semigroup.) 262

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S is a DV-semigroup i f f i t is an upper continuous or meet-con-

tinuous semilattice, i . e . , (^)

x^supZ= sup { x ^ z : z E Z }

holds for a l l directed (lower) sets Z possessing a join ( c f . [ 3 ] , [ 1 6 ] ) . (d)

S is a pV-semigroup i f f i t is a sup-distributive semilattice,

i . e . , (A) holds for all subsets Z possessing a join ( c f . [ 8 ] ) . Complete sup-distributive lattices are also referred to as complete Heytin~ algebras, frames or locales. Notice that the following three conditions are equivalent for a complete l a t t i c e C (because MC = 17AC n DVc = pVc ) : (a)

C is Brouwerian.

(b)

C is distributive and meet-continuous.

(c)

C is sup-distributive.

(7) I f

S is a group equipped with a partial order then the following

conditions are a l l equivalent, because the translations are orderisomorphisms whenever they are isotone: (a) (b)

S is a residuated (semi)group. S is a Y-semigroup for one, resp. each compositive standard extension V.

(c)

S is a po-(semi)group.

Henceforth l e t V be anj standard completion. We can assign to every V-semigroup S the system VS, where S is considered as a posetonly. For X,Y E VS we set X . Y = { z E S: z = x.y for some x E X , y E Y} X|

= (X.Y)- = n { z

E VS : X . Y ~ Z } .

V-conti nui ty of the translations yields (cf. Aubert [0]) : X.Y- ~- (X.Y)-

and X-.Y c (X.Y)-

for a l l

X,Y c S,

and i t follows that (X.Y)- = ( X . Y - ) - -- ( X - - Y ) - = ( X - . Y - ) "

(x,YES);

in particular, X O ( Y e Z ) : ( X . ( Y . Z ) - ) " : ( X . ( Y . Z ) ) - : ((X.Y).Z)- : ((X.Y)-.Z)= (X|

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for all

X,Y,Z E VS, and consequently VS is a semigroup with re spec.t

to the operation|

. Furthermore, for

X,Y,Z E VS we have the follow-

ing equivalences: XGY E Z i f f iff

X.Y ~ Z

iff

Zx[Y] ~ Z for all

x EX

Y ~ n { z ~ 1 [ Z ] : x E X } = Z." X E VS.

This, together with the opposite calculation for the right translations, leads to 2.2 PROPOSITION. I f

S is a V-semi~roup then VS is a complete re-

siduated semigroup, and the natural embedding n S : S ~ VS ,

x ~ ~x

i s not on1~ a V-completion but a l s o a semigroup homomorphism. I f

S is a residuated semi~roup then nS preserves the residuation operations, too. 2.3 REMARKS. (1) I f

S is a p a r t i a l l y ordered monoid then so is

VS.

(2) Completions of Abelian V-semigroups are again Abelian. (3) The completion VS of a meet-semilattice S, considered as a Vsemigroup, is again a meet-semilattice. In fact,

VS is a frame with

respect to set inclusion (see 2.1(6)), and the meet-semilattice operation induced from S is set intersection: X AY = { X^ y : X E X , y E Y } = X n Y for (4) The completion

VS of a join-semilattice

X,Y E VS. S which is a V-semi-

group need not be a semilattice with respect to the induced operation, although i t is a complete l a t t i c e with respect to inclusion and set intersection. For example, i f

V is the Aleksandrov completion A then

may f a i l to be idempotent, as the following simple example shows: i S = o/~ x

A = {x,y} E AS, A(~A = S ~ A y

However, i f

V is a standard completion contained in the join-ideal

completion

Fv (see Section 1) then VS will carry a semilattice op-

eration (~ inherited from S. But, observe that the corresponding partial order relation ~ defined by

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iff

X~ Y = Y

will in general be distinct from set inclusion, since ~- is not the least but the greatest element with respect to ~! Indeed, X9

= (X v B)- = B-

For example, i f

for

X E VS.

V is the normal completion N and S is the preceding

three element semilattice then the extended semilattice (VS, v) has the diagram

2, while VS, considered as a poset with respect to set inclusion, has the diagram

These examples show that the interpretation of join-semilattices as po-semigroups is a b i t delicate, because the order-inherited natural join-semilattice structure of the completion VS is not always the semigroup structure induced from S. Now l e t us consider homomorphisms between J-semigroups. 2.4 LEMMA. Let f : C ~ C'

be a j o.in-preserving map between two J-

semigroups C and C' (see 2.1(3)). I f there exists a join-dense subset S of C with

f(x.y) = f ( x ) . f ( y )

for all

x,y E S, then

f is a semigrou.p homomorphism. PROOF. For x,y E C put

X = +XNS , Y = ~yNS . Then we have x =

supX and y = supY,whence f(x-y) = f(sup(X-Y)) sup(f[X]-f[Y]) ,and

supf[X.Y] =

f ( x ) . f ( y ) = f(supX).f(supY)= supfLX]-supf[Y] =

sup(f[X].f[Y]) , i . e . , f(x-y) = f ( x ) . f ( y ) " o Now i t is easy to extend Proposition 1.1 to the level of V-semigroups. 2.5 PROPOSITION. For each V-s.emig.rou.p S, t h.e embeddin.~ ns: S ~ VS, x ~ +x has the following universal Property: Amap g: S ~ C from S into a complete residuated semigroup C is a weakl~ Ycontinuous semigroup homomorphism i f f there exists a unique j o i n pres.ervi.n.g semi.group homomorphism gV: VS ~ C with g = gVo ns .

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ERNE AND REICHMAN PROOF. Suppose g: S ~ C is a weakly V-continuous semigroup homomorphism from S into a complete residuated semigroup C. By 1.1, gV : VS ~ C ,

Y ~ supY

is the unique join-preserving map from VS into

C with g = gVon S.

Furthermore, the restriction of gV to MS satisfies the equation gV(+x).gV(+y) = g(x).g(y) = g(x.y) : gV(+(x-y)) = gV(+x.+y),and as MS is join-dense in the complete residuated semigroup VS (see 2.2), we conclude from Lemma 2.4 that gV is a semigroup homomorphism. Conversely, i f phism with

h: VS ~ C is any join-preserving semigroup homomor-

g = hon S then from 1.1 and 2.2 we infer that g must be

a weakly V-continuous semigroup homomorphism (but observe that g need not be V-continuous i f

V f a i l s to be compositive!) []

2.6 COROLLARY. A map f : S ~ S'

between V-semigroups S and S' i s

a V-continuous semigroup homomorphism i f f there exists a unique join-preservin 9 s.emigroup homomorphism Vf: VS ~ VS'

with

vf Oqs = nS'~ f " PROOF. Apply 2.5 to the map g = nS,o f which is weakly V-continuous iff

f is V-continuous ( c f . [ 9 , 2 . 4 ] ) . m

Now l e t us introduce the adequate categories. The V-semigroups together with V-continuous semigroup homomorphisms form a category $V" For example, SA is the category of po-semigroups and is 9

semi-

group homomorphisms. By CS we denote the category of complete residuated semigroups together with join-preserving ( i . e . , residuated) semigroup homomorphisms. Notice that CS is a subcategory of $A but not necessarily a subcategory of the smaller category SV" However, if

V is compositive then C$ turns out to be a reflective subcate-

gory of $V; we shall come back to that situation later. In the general case of an arbitrary standard completion V we have to replace the category s

by another category of so-called "V-semigroup com-

pletions" in order to obtain the desired adjunction theorems. We start with a somewhat larger category, the category

S~E of V-semi-

group embeddings. The objects of this category are all weakly V-continuous embeddings of V-semigroups into complete residuated semigroups. If

e : S ~ C and e ' : S' ~ C'

are two of these V-semigroup embed-

,dings, then a morphism between e and e'

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in the category $~E is a

ERNEAND REICHMAN join-preserving semigroup homomorphism c: C ~ C' exists a V-continuous map co: S ~ S'

with

such that there

c o e = e ' o c o . The " i n -

duced" map co is then an $V-morphism and is uniquely determined by c. The category $~E may be regarded as a generalized "arrow category" (see [18,4.16] and [11]). By a V-semi~roup completion we mean a V-semigroup embedding which is join-dense. A V-semigroup completion i f for a l l (*)

x E S and a l l

e(x) ~ supe[Y]

e : S ~C

is free or ~ r i m i t i v e

Y E VS,

implies

x EY.

By 2.2, each of the natural embeddings qS is a V-semigroup completion, and the subsequent lemma w i l l demonstrate that they are, up to isomorphism, the only free V-semigroup completions. Moreover, we shall characterize (free) V-completions "V-liftings"

e: S ~ C by means of the unique

eV: VS ~ C (defined in 2.5).

2.7 LEMMA. Let e: S ~ C be a V-semigroup embedding. Then the f o l lowing three conditions are equivalent: (a) e i s join--dense, ~ . e . , a V-.semigrouP completion. (b) ev is surjective. (c) There exists a (unique) surjective C$-morphism c: VS ~ C with

e = COqs "

Furthermore, the f.ollowi.n~ three conditions are equivalent: (a') e is a free V-semigro.up completion. (b') ev is b i j e c t i v e , i . e . , a C$-isomorphism. (c') There exists a (unique) s

c : VS ~ C with

e = coq S . PROOF. (a) ~ (b): For y E C, we have Y = e-Z[+y] E VS and y = supe[e-1[+y]] = eV(y). Hence e is surjective and therefore a s epimorphism. (b) - (c): See 2 . 5 . (c) - (a): For y E C there exists an Y E VS with

y = c(Y) =

c(supns[Y] ) = supc[~s[Y]] = supe[Y]. Hence e is join-dense. (a') ~ ( b ' ) : By what we have shown before, ev must be surjective.

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ERNE AND REICHMAN Suppose eV(y) = eV(Z) for some Y,Z E VS. Then , by condition (*), we obtain x E Y i f f e(x) ~ eV(y) i f f e(x) ~ eV(Z) i f f x E Z, whence Y = Z. (b') -, (c'): See 2.5 . (c') ~ (a'): Since (c) implies (a), we already know that e must be a V-semigroup completion. Furthermore, for x E S and Y E VS with e(x) ~ supe[Y], we conclude c(~x) = (COns)(X) ~ supc[qs[Y]] = c[suPns[Y]] = c(Y), and as c is an isomorphism, i t follows that +x ~ Y,

i.e.

x E Y.o

REMARK. I t is easy to see that the epimorphisms (resp. monomorphisms) in the category C (see Section 1) are precisely the surjective (resp. injective) C-morphisms. But i t is not evident whether the same holds for the category CS instead of C. However, the isomorphisms in s are certainly the bijective {$-morphisms. The V-semigroup completions are the objects of a full subcategory$~C of the category S~E and the free V-semigroup completions are the objects of a full subcategory S~F. Suppose there is given an Sv-morphism f : S ~ S' and a V-semigroup embedding e: S' ~ C' . Then e o f is weakly V-continuous, and by 2.5, the map ( e o f ~

is the unique

Sv-~E-morphism c: nS ~ e with Co= f . This proves the main part of the following result.

2.8 THEOREM. Let V be an a r b i t r a r y standard completion, (I) The domain functor ~ : $v-'E~ SV with Pe : domain of e for S~E-objects e and ~c = c o for S~E-morphisms c has a l e f t adjoint r i g h t inverse V : $V ~ Sv-~E with VS = ns for $v-objects S and ~f = Vf for Sv-morphisms f . (2) P restricts to a forgetful (i.e. faithful) functor from $~{ t o $V which i s right adjoint

left

inverse to the corestric-

tion of the functor ~ t o S~{. (3) ~ r e s t r i c t s to an equivalence between the categories S~F and $V ; the inverse equivalence is obtained by corestrictin~ the functor ~ t o S~F.

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ERNEAND REICHMAN (4) In each of these adjunctions, the counit ce : VS ~ C ,

c is~.iven by

Y ~ sup e[Y]

for all V-semigroup embeddings e: S ~ C . In almost all practical applications, the standard completions V are isomorphism-closed, i . e . , every order-isomorphism is V-continuous. In this case i t is convenient to replace the categories

$~E , $~C and

SV~f with certain subcategories of the product category $VxC$. This can be done as follows: Objects of the category SVE are pairs (S,C) where C is a complete residuated semigroup and S is a V-subsemigroup of C, i . e . , a subsemigroup of C which is a V-semigroup with respect to the induced partial order relation and a V-s.ubposet, i . e . , +y n S E VS for all

y E C.

In other words, (S,C) is an object of the category $VE i f f the inclusion map iS,C: S ~ C is a V-semigroup embedding. A morphism between two $vI-objects (S,C) and (S',C') is a join-preserving semigroup homomorphism c: C ~ C' inducing a V-continuous map Co:S ~ S' (which is then a semigroup homomorphism between S and S' ). There is an obvious equivalence functor

I : $VE ~ $V~I with

I(S,C) = is, c for $vI-objects (S,C) and Ic = c for SvI-morphisms c. This functor induces equivalences between the full subcategory $VC of concrete V-semi~roup completions (defined in the obvious way) and the category $~s as well as between the full subcategory $VF of free concrete V-semigroup completions and the category $~F. An $vI-object (S,C) belongs to $V{ i f f

y = sup(+ynS)

for all yEC.

The objects of $VF are characterized by the additional property that each element of S is V-prime in (S,C), i . e . , x E S , Y E VS and x ~ supY imply x E Y . Now the ~oncrete" version of Theorem 2.8 reads as follows: 2.9 THEOREM. Let V be anu i.somo.rphism-closed standard comple.t!on. Then the " l e f t projection" functor

PE: SVI ~ SV with

PE(S,C) = S for $vI-objects and PEc = co for $v[-morphisms c i s right adjoint to the "V-embedding" functor VE: $V ~ $VE with

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ERNEAND REICHMAN VES = (MS,VS) for $v-objects

S and

VEf = Vf for $V-morphisms f . The unit of the adjunction is an isomorphism, and the components of the counit are the join maps ~(S,C) : VS ~ C ,

Y ~ supY.

2.10 COROLLARY. The adjoint pair VE,PE restricts to an adjoint pair of functors

: sy

syc,

Pc : svc sv"

The projection functor Pc is faithful because the counit maps ~(S,C) are surjective for SvC-objects (S,C). Furthermore, Pc restricts to an equivalence between $V and SVF; the inverse equivalence is obtained by corestriction of the functor

Vc to

the category SVF, As an immediate consequence of 2.4 we notice: 2.11 LEMMA. A join-preserving map c: C ~ C'

is an $vs

be-

tween (S,C) and (S',C') i f f i t induces an SV-morphism between S and S ' . I t follows from 2.8 that $~F is a coreflective subcategory of $~C and of $~E; similarly, from 2.9 we infer that SVF is a coreflective subcategory of SVr and $VE . Moreover, we can prove: 2.12 THEOREM. $~{ is a coreflective subcategory o~f $~E, and $Vs i s a coreflective subcategory o__f_f SVE . PROOF. We only consider the second statement; the f i r s t one is treated similarly. Given an arbitrary $vE-object (S,C), we define CS = { supX: X E S }

(the joins formed in C).

CS is closed under arbitrary joins in C and is a subsemigroup of C (because C is a complete residuated semigroup). Hence CS is a complete residuated semigroup also, and the inclusion map iCs,C :CS ~ C is a join-preserving semigroup embedding. On the other hand, the inclusion map is, c

: S ~ CS turns out to be a V-semigroup completion s whence (S,Cs) is an object of the category SVc . In order to show that SVc is a coreflective subcategory of SvE with coreflection maps 270

ERNEAND REICHMAN C(s,c ) : iCs,C : (S,Cs)~ (s,c) , i t remains to verify the following couniversal property: For each $v{-object (S,C) and each $vI-morphism c: C ~ C'

between (S,C) and

an SvE-object (S',C'), there exists a unique $vC-morphism ~ between (S,C) and (S',C's,) such that c = E(S,,C,)O ~ . I t is easy to see that the corestriction of c to C' S, (which is well-defined because c preserves joins and S is join-dense in C) is the only $vs with the required property. Summarizing some of the adjunction theorems derived before, we obtain the following diagram of adjoint functor pairs for an arbitrary isomorphism-closed standard completion V.

~ inclusion functor Vc

E

~ coreflector !

$V

~ equivalence F

Now let us make the stronger assumption that V is a compositive standard completion. Under this hypothesis the preceding definitions can be simplified a bit, and the adjunctions derived before are supplemented by a theorem characterizing

V as a reflector from the cat-

egory $V to the subcategory CS. 2.13 PROPOSITION. S.up.pose V i s a

compositive standard completion

and S is a V-semigroup. Then: (1) The completion VS is a residuated V-semigroup, and the embedding qS: S ~ VS is an $V-morphism. (2) I f

S' i s a su.bs.emi~r.o.up of S with

~y~S' E VS' for all

y E S then S' is a V-subsemigroup of S. (3) Let (S,C) and (S',C') be SvC-objects. Then for a join-preserving map c: C ~ C' , the following conditions are equivalent: (a) c is an $vt-morphism between (S,C) and (S',C'). (b) c i s a semigroup homomorphism between C and C' with

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ERNE AND REICHMAN (c) c induces a semig.roup homomorphism from S into S' . PROOF. (1) See 2.2. (2) Let x,z E S' and +z = { y E S: y