Maximal semigroups in the divisible hull of lattices in nilpotent Lie groups (Q2718655)

A subsemigroup \(S\) of a group \(G\) is said to be maximal if \(S\) is not a subgroup and the only subsemigroups of \(G\) containing \(S\) are \(G\) and \(S\) itself. Given \(\Gamma\) a lattice in a simply connected nilpotent Lie group \(N\), this paper characterizes the maximal semigroups of \({\mathfrak n}_{\mathbb Q}\), defined as the \({\mathbb Q}\)-span of \(exp^{-1}(\Gamma)\). It is shown that a subset of \({\mathfrak n}_{\mathbb Q}\) is a maximal semigroup if and only if it is the intersection of a maximal semigroup with non-void interior in \(N\) with \({\mathfrak n}_{\mathbb Q}\). A similar result is given for the non-simply connected case.