Skew compact semigroups

• Kopperman, Ralph D. ^[1] ; Robbie, Desmond ^[2]
  1. [1] City University of New York

     City University of New York

     Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] University of Melbourne

     University of Melbourne

     Australia

     
• Localización: Applied general topology, ISSN-e 1989-4147, ISSN 1576-9402, Vol. 4, Nº. 1, 2003, págs. 133-142
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.4995/agt.2003.2015
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  • Skew compact spaces are the best behaving generalization of compact Hausdorff spaces to non-Hausdorff spaces. They are those (X ; τ ) such that there is another topology τ* on X for which τ V τ* is compact and (X; τ ; τ*) is pairwise Hausdorff; under these conditions, τ uniquely determines τ *, and (X; τ*) is also skew compact. Much of the theory of compact T2 semigroups extends to this wider class. We show: A continuous skew compact semigroup is a semigroup with skew compact topology τ, such that the semigroup operation is continuous τ2→ τ. Each of these contains a unique minimal ideal which is an upper set with respect to the specialization order. A skew compact semigroup which is a continuous semigroup with respect to both topologies is called a de Groot semigroup. Given one of these, we show: It is a compact Hausdorff group if either the operation is cancellative, or there is a unique idempotent and S2 = S. Its topology arises from its subinvariant quasimetrics. Each *-closed ideal ≠ S is contained in a proper open ideal.

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