Representations and identities of plactic-like monoids

• Published in: Journal of Algebra
• Main Authors: Cain, Alan J., Johnson, Marianne, Kambites, Mark, Malheiro, António
• Other Authors: CMA - Centro de Matemática e Aplicações, DM - Departamento de Matemática
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Baxter monoid; Hypoplactic monoid; Plactic monoid; Representation; Semigroup identity; Stalactic monoid; Sylvester monoid; Taiga monoid; Tropical semiring; Upper triangular matrix semigroup; Varieties; Algebra and Number Theory; Baxter; Patience; taiga
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/145310; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2022.04.033

Publisher Copyright: © 2022 We exhibit faithful representations of the hypoplactic, stalactic, taiga, sylvester, Baxter and right patience sorting monoids of each finite rank as monoids of upper triangular matrices over any semiring from a large class including the tropical semiring and fields of characteristic 0. By analysing the image of these representations, we show that the variety generated by a single hypoplactic (respectively, stalactic or taiga) monoid of rank at least 2 coincides with the variety generated by the natural numbers together with a fixed finite monoid H (respectively, F) and forms a proper subvariety of the variety generated by the plactic monoid of rank 2. publishersversion published