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Topological semigroups/monoids: topological space endowed with a continuous semigroup/monoid structure, or, equivalently, semigroup/monoid endowed with a compatible topology.

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Spaces with no topological monoid structure which are homotopy equivalent to topological mon...

It is known that the topological closure of the curve $y=\sin(1/x)$ has no topological monoid structure but I don't know if it is homotopy equivalent to a monoid. Edit. It is shown here that no mono …
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Stone–Čech compactification as a semigroup

Corollary 4.33 of Hindman and Strauss's book on Algebra in the Stone Cech Compactification says that if $S$ is an infinite cancellative (discrete) semigroup, then the nonprincipal ultrafilters in $\be …
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