Coherency and Constructions for Monoids

A monoid S is right coherent if every finitely generated subact of every finitely presented right S-act is finitely presented. This is a finiteness condition, and we investigate whether or not it is preserved under some standard algebraic and semigroup theoretic constructions: subsemigroups, homomorphic images, direct products, Rees matrix semigroups, including Brandt semigroups, and Bruck–Reilly extensions. We also investigate the relationship with the property of being weakly right noetherian, which requires all right ideals of S to be finitely generated.