Definition:Inverse Completion

Definition
Let $\left({S, \circ}\right)$ be a semigroup.

Let $\left({C, \circ}\right) \subseteq \left({S, \circ}\right)$ be the subsemigroup of cancellable elements of $\left({S, \circ}\right)$.

Let $\left({T, \circ'}\right)$ be a semigroup defined such that:


 * $(1): \quad \left({S, \circ}\right)$ is a subsemigroup of $\left({T, \circ'}\right)$
 * $(2): \quad$ Every element of $C$ has an inverse in $T$ for $\circ'$
 * $(3): \quad \left\langle{S \cup C^{-1}}\right\rangle = \left({T, \circ'}\right)$

where:
 * $\left\langle{S \cup C^{-1}}\right\rangle$ denotes the semigroup generated by $S \cup C^{-1}$
 * $C^{-1}$ denotes the inverse of $C$.

Then $\left({T, \circ'}\right)$ is called an inverse completion of $\left({S, \circ}\right)$.

Also known as
Some sources use a hyphen: inverse-completion.

Also see

 * Construction of Inverse Completion
 * Cancellable Elements of Semigroup form Subsemigroup