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One-sided identities for subsets of the semigroup of binary relations

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We describe one-sided identity elements and subsets of the semigroup of all binary relations on a nonempty set. We obtain formulas for the number of identities for a finite set.

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Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 42, No. 8, pp. 1026–1031, August, 1990.

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Diasamidze, Y.I. One-sided identities for subsets of the semigroup of binary relations. Ukr Math J 42, 915–918 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01099220

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