E-unitary and F-inverse monoids, and closure operators on group Cayley graphs

We show that the category of X-generated E-unitary inverse monoids with greatest group image G is equivalent to the category of G-invariant, finitary closure operators on the set of connected subgraphs of the Cayley graph of G. Analogously, we study F-inverse monoids in the extended signature \((\cdot, 1, ^{-1}, ^\mathfrak m)\) $(·,1{,}^{-1}{,}^{\mathfrak{m}})$ , and show that the category of X-generated F-inverse monoids with greatest group image G is equivalent to the category of G-invariant, finitary closure operators on the set of all subgraphs of the Cayley graph of G. As an application, we show that presentations of F-inverse monoids in the extended signature can be studied by tools analogous to Stephen’s procedure in inverse monoids, in particular, we introduce the notions of F-Schützenberger graphs and P-expansions.