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Compact subsemigroups of (βℕ, +) containing the idempotents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Neil Hindman  and
Dona Strauss
Neil Hindman
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsHoward UniversityWashington D.C. 20059, U.S.A.
Dona Strauss
Affiliation:
Department of Pure MathematicsUniversity of HullCottingham RoadHull HU6 7RX
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The space βℕ is the Stone-Čech compactification of the discrete space of positive integers. The set of elements of βℕ which are in the kernel of every continuous homomorpnism from βℕ to a topological group is a compact semigroup containing the idempotents. At first glance it would seem a good candidate for the smallest such semigroup. We produce an infinite nested sequence of smaller such semigroups all defined naturally in terms of addition on ℕ.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 291 - 307
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1996

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