Free groups and semigroups in \(\beta\) N (Q791681)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3851396
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3851396 |
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Free groups and semigroups in \(\beta\) N (English)
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1984
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The most striking conclusions of this paper are easy to state. It is well known that \(\beta\) N, the Stone-Čech compactification of the positive integers with addition, has a natural semigroup structure. It is also known that \(\beta\) N is non-commutative. Indeed its centre is N. We prove that it is very non-commutative; it contains copies of the free group on \(2^ c\) generators. As a by-product of our methods, we obtain simpler proofs than have so far been given that the numbers of minimal left and of minimal right ideals in \(\beta\) N are both \(2^ c\).
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Stone-Čech compactification
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non-commutative
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free group
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minimal right ideals
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