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How much do idempotent ultrafilters generate in terms of semigroups?

It is known that the set of ultrafilters on, say, the natural numbers $\mathbb{N}$, can naturally be endowed with the structure of a compact topological left semigroup (which fails to be anything ...
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Embedding $\beta\mathbb{N}$ into a product of Cantor sets

Let us consider $\beta\mathbb{N}$, the Stone-Čech compactification of the natural numbers (where we do not take $0$ to be a natural number, so the only idempotent elements are nonprincipal ...
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The smallest cardinality of a cover of a group by algebraic sets

$\DeclareMathOperator\cov{cov}$A subset $A$ of a semigroup $X$ is called algebraic if $$A=\{x\in X: a_0xa_1x...xa_n=b\}$$ for some $b\in X$ and $a_0,a_1,...,a_n \in X^1=X\cup \{1\}$. The smallest ...
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Generalization of pseudogroups

Pseudogroups are defined here: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/pseudogroup One of the problems with defining manifolds in terms of pseudogroups is that it gives no notion of a morphism between manifolds,...
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Closedness of the partial order in complete Hausdorff semitopological semilattices

First some definitions. A semilattice is a commutative semigroup consisting of idempotents (i.e., elements such that $xx=x$). A typical example of a semilattice is the unit interval endowed with the ...
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Is each TS-topologizable group TG-topologizable?

Definition 1. A topology $\tau$ on a group $X$ is called $\bullet$ a semigroup topology if the multiplication $X\times X\to X$, $(x,y)\mapsto xy$, is continuous in the topology $\tau$; $\bullet$ a ...
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When is the submonoid preserving a subspace finitely generated?

Let $T$ be a topological space with at least one open set whose closure is not open. Let $G$ be a finitely generated group acting by homeomorphisms on $T$. Let $S\subset T$ be a subspace. Under what ...
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Making the powerset into a topological monoid

Every monoid $X$ induces a monoid structure $\circledast$ on $\mathcal{P}(X)$ via $$U\circledast V := \{uv\ |\ u\in U,v\in V\}.$$ Moreover, a morphism of monoids $f\colon X\to Y$ induces a morphism of ...
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Closure of the inverse image under the projection map

Let $S$ be a subsemigroup of a semitopological semigroup $(T,+)$, let $e$ be an idempotent in $T\setminus S$ such that $e\in cl_T(S)$, let $\mathcal{E}$ be a subsemigroup of $S\times S$ such that $(e,...
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Compactness of the minimal ideal of a compact Hausdorff polytopological semigroup

A semigroup $X$ endowed with a topology is called $\bullet$ a topological semigroup if the semigroup operation $X\times X\to X$ is continuous; $\bullet$ a semitopological semigroup if for every $a,b\...
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On the compactification of partial semigroups

We begin by introducing some relevant definitions. Definition: A $\textit{partial semigroup}$ is a pair $(S,.)$ where $.$ maps a subset of $S \times S$ to $S$ and for all $a,b,c \in S, (a.b).c=a.(b.c)...
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First-countable topological monoids without local absorbing elements whose topology is induced by a semimetric

This is a follow up of Question 163246. For the reader's convenience, let me first copy&paste some basic definitions. We let a semimetric on a set $X$ be a function $d: X \times X \to [0,\infty]$ ...
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Neighborhoods of idempotents in topological inverse semigroups

In a topological group, for any neighborhood $U$ of the origin, there is another such neighborhood with the property that $V.V\subseteq U.$ I conjecture a similar property for topological inverse ...
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