The relationships among many notions of largeness for subsets of a semigroup

DOI10.1007/S00233-018-9944-3MaRDI QIDQ2003175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Neil Hindman, Lakeshia Legette Jones, D. Strauss

Publication date 16 July 2019

Published in Semigroup Forum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00233-018-9944-3

zbMATH Keywords

notions of sizeRamsey theoryStone-Čech compactification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ramsey theory (05D10) Structure of topological semigroups (22A15) Extensions of spaces (compactifications, supercompactifications, completions, etc.) (54D35)

Review text

A set \(A\subset \mathbb N\) is called \textit{thick} if it contains arbitrarily long integer intervals. The set \(A\) is \textit{syndetic} if it has bounded gaps; it is called \textit{an \(AP\)-set} if it contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. The authors define analogues of these concepts for an abitrary semigroup \(S\) together with quite a few other notions which somehow embody the idea of a large subset of \(S\). They also consider \(S\) with the discrete topology and study the introduced notions in the context of \(\beta S\) providing, among other things, some combinatorial characterizations as well as the implications and counterexamples to decribe relationships between these large subsets of \(S\).

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