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IDEALS IN LEFT ALMOST SEMIGROUPS

Abstract

A left almost semigroup (LA-semigroup) or an Abel-Grassmann's groupoid (AG-groupoid) is investigated in several papers. In this paper we have discussed ideals in LA-semigroups. Specifically, we have shown that every ideal in an LA-semigroup S with left identity e is prime if and only if it is idempotent and the set of ideals of S is totally ordered under inclusion. We have shown that an ideal of S is prime if and only if it is semiprime and strongly irreducible. We have proved also that every ideal in a regular LA-semigroup S is prime if and only if the set of ideals of S is totally ordered under inclusion. We have proved in the end that every ideal in S is prime if and only if it is strongly irreducible and the set of ideals of S form a semilattice. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 20M10 and 20N99.

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