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This comprehensive, encyclopedic text in four parts aims to give the reader - from the graduate student to the researcher/practitioner - a detailed understanding of modern finite semigroup theory, focusing in particular on advanced topics on the cutting edge of research. The q-theory of Finite Semigroups presents important techniques and results, many for the first time in book form, thereby updating and modernizing the semigroup theory literature.

The q-theory of Finite Semigroups

-Preface.- List of Tables.-List of Figures.-Introduction.-Part I. The q-operator and Pseudovarieties of Relational Morphisms.-1. Foundations for Finite Semigroup Theory.-2. The q-operator - 3.The Equational Theory -Part II. Complexity in Finite Semigroup Theory. -4. The Complexity of Finite Semigroups. -5. Two-Sided Complexity and the Complexity of Operators.-Part III. The Algebraic Lattice of Semigroup Pseudovarieties.-6. Algebraic Lattices, Continuous Lattices and Closure Operators.-7. The Abstract Spectral Theory of PV.-Part IV. Quantales, Indempotent Semirings, Matrix Algebras and the Triangular Product-8. Quantales.-9. The Triangular Product and Decomposition Results for Semirings.-A. The Green-Rees Local Structure Theory.-B. Tables on Preservation of Sups and Infs.- List of Problems.- References.- Table of Pseudovarieties.-Table of Operators and Products.-Index of Notation.-Author Index.-Index.