A note on generators of the endomorphism semigroup of an infinite countable chain

Abstract

In this note, we consider the semigroup $O(X)$ of all order endomorphisms of an infinite chain $X$ and the subset $J$ of $O(X)$ of all transformations $\alpha$ such that $|Im(\alpha)|=|X|$. For an infinite countable chain $X$, we give a necessary and sufficient condition on $X$ for $O(X) = \langle J \rangle$ to hold. We also present a sufficient condition on $X$ for $O(X) = \langle J \rangle$ to hold, for an arbitrary infinite chain $X$.