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Abstract.
The full order-preserving
transformation semigroup $OT(X)$ on a poset $X$ has long been studied.
In this paper, we study the semigroup $(OT(X,Y), \theta)$ where
$X$ and $Y$ are chains, $OT(X,Y)$ is the set of all
order-preserving maps from $X$ into $Y$, $\theta \in OT(Y,X)$ and
the operation $*$ is defined by $\alpha * \beta =\alpha \theta
\beta$ for all $\alpha , \beta \in OT(X,Y)$. We characterize when
$(OT(X,Y), \theta)$ is regular, $(OT(X,Y), \theta)$ $\cong OT(X)$
and $(OT(X,Y), \theta)\cong OT(Y)$.
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