Abstract
It was shown in [3] that every finite group is the maximal subgroup of a semigroupB x of all binary relations on some finite set X. This result is extended here to arbitrary groups.
Keywords
Partial Order Finite Group Binary Relation Distributive Lattice Symmetric Group
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