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Compact subsemigroups of (βℕ, +) containing the idempotents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
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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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