The multiplicative semigroup of a Dedekind domain

Abstract

In 1995 Grillet defined the concept of a stratified semigroup and a stratified semigroup with zero. The present authors extended that idea to include semigroups with a more general base and proved, amongst other things, that finite semigroups in which the H-classes contain idempotents, are semilattices of stratified extensions of completely simple semigroups, and every strict stratified extension of a Clifford semigroup is a semilattice of stratified extensions of groups. We continue this work here by considering the multiplicative semigroup of Dedekind domains and show in particular that quotients of such rings have a multiplicative structure that is a (finite) Boolean algebra of stratified extensions of groups.