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Embedding topological semigroups in topological groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Sheila A. McKilligan
Sheila A. McKilligan
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University of Aberdeen
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If we consider a semigroup, its algebraic structure may be such that it is isomorphic to a subsemigroup of a group, or is algebraically embeddable in a group. This problem was investigated in 1931 by Ore who obtained in (4) a set of necessary conditions for this embedding. A necessary condition is that the semigroup should be cancellative: for any a, x, y in the semigroup either xa = ya or ax = ay implies that x = y. Malcev in (3) showed that this was not sufficient. It is enough to note that his example was a non-commutative semigroup: a commutative cancellative semigroup is embeddable algebraically in a group.

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , December 1970 , pp. 127 - 138
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1970

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