On the semigroup of all partial fence-preserving injections on a finite set

Abstract

For [Formula: see text], let [Formula: see text] be an [Formula: see text]-element set and let [Formula: see text] be a fence, also called a zigzag poset. As usual, we denote by [Formula: see text] the symmetric inverse semigroup on [Formula: see text]. We say that a transformation [Formula: see text] is fence-preserving if [Formula: see text] implies that [Formula: see text], for all [Formula: see text] in the domain of [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we study the semigroup [Formula: see text] of all partial fence-preserving injections of [Formula: see text] and its subsemigroup [Formula: see text]. Clearly, [Formula: see text] is an inverse semigroup and contains all regular elements of [Formula: see text] We characterize the Green’s relations for the semigroup [Formula: see text]. Further, we prove that the semigroup [Formula: see text] is generated by its elements with rank [Formula: see text]. Moreover, for [Formula: see text], we find the least generating set and calculate the rank of [Formula: see text].