Large rectangular semigroups in Stone-Cech compactifications

We show that large rectangular semigroups can be found in certain Stone-Cech compactifications. In particular, there are copies of the $2^{\mathfrak{c}}\times 2^{\mathfrak{c}}$rectangular semigroup in the smallest ideal of $(\beta\mathbb{N},+)$, and so, a semigroup consisting of idempotents can be embedded in the smallest ideal of $(\beta\mathbb{N},+)$ if and only if it is a subsemigroup of the $2^{\mathfrak{c}}\times 2^{\mathfrak{c}}$ rectangular semigroup. In fact, we show that for any ordinal $\lambda$ with cardinality at most $\mathfrak{c}$, $\beta{\mathbb{N}}$ contains a semigroup of idempotents whose rectangular components are all copies of the $2^{\mathfrak{c}}\times 2^{\mathfrak{c}}$ rectangular semigroup and form a decreasing chain indexed by $\lambda+1$, with the minimum component contained in the smallest ideal of $\beta\mathbb{N}$.

As a fortuitous corollary we obtain the fact that there are $\leq_{L}$-chains of idempotents of length $\mathfrak{c}$ in $\beta \mathbb{N}$. We show also that there are copies of the direct product of the $2^{\mathfrak{c}}\times 2^{\mathfrak{c}}$ rectangular semigroup with the free group on $2^{\mathfrak{c}}$ generators contained in the smallest ideal of $\beta\mathbb{N}$.