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A remark on compact semigroups having certain decomposition spaces embeddable in the plane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

R. P. Hunter
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
L. W. Anderson
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Abstract

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Let S be a compact connected semigroup. If the decomposition space of S, under the action of a compact connected subgroup at the identity, is a plane continuum then this decomposition is a congruence.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1971

References

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