Ordered semigroup

Ordered semigroup

In mathematics, an ordered semigroup is a semigroup (S,•) together with a partial order that is compatible with the semigroup operation, meaning that x y implies zx zy and xz yz for all x, y, z in S.

If S is a group and it is ordered as a semigroup, one obtains the notion of ordered group, and similarly if S is a monoid it may be called ordered monoid.

References

  • T.S. Blyth, Lattices and Ordered Algebraic Structures, Springer, 2005, ISBN 1-85233-905-5, chap. 11.