Characterization of amenable semigroups with a unique invariant mean (Q796779)
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Characterization of amenable semigroups with a unique invariant mean (English)
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1983
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An amenable semigroup S has the property that, for any a,\(b\in S\), a\(S\cap bS\) and S\(a\cap Sb\) are non-void, and one can define a congruence \(a\sim b\) if and only if \(as=bs\) and \(ta=tb\) for some s,\(t\in S\). The author's main theorem here states that, for amenable S, the following are equivalent: (1) S has a unique left invariant mean. (2) S contains a finite two-sided ideal which is also a group. (3) S has a unique right invariant mean. (4) S/\(\sim\) is a finite group and ker \(\sim\) has a zero element.
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amenable semigroup
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invariant mean
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