The ideal structure of the Stone-Čech compactification of a group

1 November 1977

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vol. 82 (3) , 401-409
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100054062

Abstract

Let S be both a topological space and a semigroup. For s ∈ S, define the maps λs and ρs of S to S byWe shall say that S is a right-topological (resp. left-topological) semigroup if ρs (resp. λs) is continuous for each s in S. We denote by Λ(S) the setthis is a subsemigroup of S.

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