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Compactifications of semitopological semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Paul Milnes
Paul Milnes
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University of Western OntarioLondon 72, Canada.
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Suppose S is a semitopological semigroup. We consider various subspaces of C(S) and determine what topological algebraic structure can be introduced into the spaces of means on the subspaces and into the spectra of the C*-sub-algebras of C(S) they generate.

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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , June 1973 , pp. 488 - 503
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1973

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