“…The full linear monoid of all n × n matrices over a field (or more generally a division ring) is one of the most natural and well studied of semigroups. This monoid plays an analogous role in semigroup theory as the general linear group does in group theory, and the study of linear semigroups [28] is important in a range of areas such as the representation theory of semigroups [1], [5,Chapter 5], Putcha-Renner theory of linear algebraic monoids (monoids closed in the Zariski topology) [30,35,37], and the theory of finite monoids of Lie type [29,31,32,33].…”