Cancellation in the Stone–Čech compactification of a discrete semigroup

DOI10.1017/S0013091500018861zbMath0807.22003OpenAlexW2021144286MaRDI QIDQ4312764

Neil Hindman, Dona E. Strauss

Publication date: 6 March 1995

Published in: Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0013091500018861

zbMATH Keywords

Stone-Čech compactificationdiscrete semigroupright cancellationsemigroup of injective functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semigroups of transformations, relations, partitions, etc. (20M20) Extensions of spaces (compactifications, supercompactifications, completions, etc.) (54D35) Structure of topological semigroups (22A15)

Related Items (5)

Subsemigroups of \(\beta\mathbb{N}\) ⋮ Algebraic and topological equivalences in the Stone-Čech compactification of a discrete semigroup ⋮ Prime properties of the smallest ideal of \(\beta\mathbb{N}\) ⋮ Right cancellation in \(\beta S\) and \(UG\) ⋮ The scarcity of products in \(\beta S\)

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