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Semigroup structures for families of functions, I. Some Homomorphism Theorems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Kenneth D. Magill Jr
Kenneth D. Magill Jr
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State University of New York at Buffalo
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This is the first of several papers which grew out of an attempt to provide C (X, Y), the family of all continuous functions mapping a topological space X into a topological space Y, with an algebraic structure. In the event Y has an algebraic structure with which the topological structure is compatible, pointwise operations can be defined on C (X, Y). Indeed, this has been done and has proved extremely fruitful, especially in the case of the ring C (X, R) of all continuous, real-valued functions defined on X [3]. Now, one can provide C(X, Y) with an algebraic structure even in the absence of an algebraic structure on Y. In fact, each continuous function from Y into X determines, in a natural way, a semigroup structure for C(X, Y). To see this, let ƒ be any continuous function from Y into X and for ƒ and g in C(X, Y), define ƒg by each x in X.

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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , February 1967 , pp. 81 - 94
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1967

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