For a pair (ℛ,ℒ) consisting of a
right quotient filter ℛ and left quotient filter ℒ on the semigroup S, a translational
hull Ω(S : ℛ,ℒ) is constructed. The results of Grillet and Petrich hold for
Ω(S : ℛ,ℒ).
Specializing ℛ and ℒ one obtains the usual translational hull Ω(S) of S and the
semigroup of quotients Q(S) of S due to Hinkle and McMorris. These results are
applied to a weakly reductive semigroup S to show that Ω(S) = Ω(Sn) for any
positive integer n.
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