Decidability of the representation extension property for finite semigroups

Decidability of the representation extension property for finite semigroups
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 1313-1317 Request permission

We prove that the decision problem of whether or not a finite semigroup has the representation extension property is decidable.

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