REES MATRIX COVERS FOR TIGHT ABUNDANT SEMIGROUPS

Rees matrix covers for regular semigroups were first studied by McAlister in 1984. Lawson extended McAlister's results to abundant semigroups in 1987. We consider here a semigroup whose set of regular elements forms a subsemigroup, named tight semigroups. In this paper, it is proved that an abundant semigroup is tight and locally E-solid if and only if it is an F-local isomorphic image of an abundant Rees matrix semigroup AM over a tight E-solid abundant semigroup T, where the entries of the sandwich matrix P of AM are regular elements of T. Our results enrich the result of Lawson on Rees matrix covers for a class of abundant semigroups and extend the results of McAlister on Rees matrix covers for regular semigroups.