Sub-irreducibility is equivalent to quotient-irreducibility for finite semirings

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Let (R,+,⋅)(R,+,\cdot) be a finite, simple, additively idempotent semiring, and let (M,+)(M,+) be a finite idempotent RR-semimodule. A semimodule is sub-irreducible if it is non-quasitrivial and has only id-quasitrivial proper subsemimodules; it is quotient-irreducible if it is non-quasitrivial and has only the trivial proper quotient semimodule. Sub-irreducibility conjecture. (M,+)(M,+) is sub-irreducible if and only if it is quotient-irreducible. The claim concerns the relationship between subsemimodules and quotient semimodules in finite simple additively idempotent semirings; the source reports computational evidence but gives no resolution.

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Andreas Kendziorra and Jens Zumbrägel, “Finite simple additively idempotent semirings”, arXiv:1201.0272 (2012).

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