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The Stone-Čech compactification of a topological semigroup

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. W. Baker  and
R. J. Butcher
J. W. Baker
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
R. J. Butcher
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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1. Introduction. Throughout this paper we shall take S to be a separately continuous, completely regular and Hausdorff, topological semigroup. We denote by Cb(S) the space of continuous and bounded complex-valued functions on S, and by βS the Stone-Čech compactification of S.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 80 , Issue 1 , July 1976 , pp. 103 - 107
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1976

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