$E$-solid locally inverse semigroups

Abstract

We prove that if $S$ is an $E$-solid locally inverse semigroup, and $\rho$ is an inverse semigroup congruence on $S$ such that the idempotent classes of $\rho$ are completely simple semigroups then $S$ is embeddable into a $\lambda$-semidirect product of a completely simple semigroup by $S/\rho$. Consequently, the $E$-solid locally inverse semigroups turn out to be, up to isomorphism, the regular subsemigroups of $\lambda$-semidirect products of completely simple semigroups by inverse semigroups.