On oriented alternating inverse monoids

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the inverse submonoids $AOR_n$ of oriented transformations and $AOP_n$ of orientation-preserving transformations of the alternating inverse monoid $AI_n$ on a chain with $n$ elements. We compute the cardinalities, describe the Green's structures and the congruences, and calculate the ranks of $AOR_n$ and $AOP_n$.