Combinatorial results for certain semigroups of order-decreasing partial isometries of a finite chain

Abstract

Let ${\cal I}_n$ be the symmetric inverse semigroup on $X_n = \{1, 2, \ldots , n\}$ and let ${\cal DDP}_n$ and ${\cal ODDP}_n$ be its subsemigroups of order-decreasing partial isometries and of order-preserving and order-decreasing partial isometries of $X_n$, respectively. In this paper we investigate the cardinalities of some equivalences on ${\cal DDP}_n$ and ${\cal ODDP}_n$ which lead naturally to obtaining the order of the semigroups