• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.775-784
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• 2009

In 1932, Lehmer [4] gave the definition of a ternary semigroup. We can see that any semigroup can be reduced to a ternary semigroup. In this paper, we give some auxiliary results which are also necessary for our considerations and characterize the relationship between the (0-)minimal and maximal ordered lateral ideals and the lateral simple and lateral 0-simple ordered ternary semigroups analogous to the characterizations of minimal and maximal left ideals in ordered semigroups considered by Cao and Xu [2].