Manifolds admitting a continuous cancellative binary operation are orientable

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Authors Taras Banakh, Igor Guran, Oleksandr Ravs'kyj

Publication date 21 December 2016

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08993, http://www.heldermann.de/JLT/JLT26/JLT264/jlt26051.htm#jlt264

zbMATH Keywords

orientable manifoldcancellative binary operation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of topological semigroups (22A15) Isotopy and pseudo-isotopy (57N37)

Abstract: We prove that a topological manifold (possibly with boundary) admitting a continuous cancellative binary operation is orientable. This implies that the M"obius band admits no cancellative continuous binary operation. This answers a question posed by the second author in 2010.

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