We survey some connections between topological dynamics, semigroups of ultrafilters, and combinatorics. As an application, we give a proof, based on ideas of Bergelson and Hindman, of the Hales-Jewett partition theorem. Furstenberg and his co-workers have shown [15, 16, 17] how to deduce combinatorial consequences from theorems about topological dynamics in compact metric spaces. Bergelson and ...

in the present paper, we consider biflatness of certain classes of semigroupalgebras. indeed, we give a necessary condition for a band semigroup algebra to bebiflat and show that this condition is not sufficient. also, for a certain class of inversesemigroups s, we show that the biflatness of ell^{1}(s)^{primeprime} is equivalent to the biprojectivity of ell^{1}(s).

We investigate new and old algebras of continuous functions on topological groups G arising from G-spaces and some associated linear representations G → Iso (V ) on Banach spaces V . The topological group G = H+[0, 1] of orientation preserving homeomorphisms on the closed interval does not admit non-trivial continuous representations G → Iso (V ) when V is a reflexive Banach space (an equivalen...

The aim of this paper is to classify all monogenic ternary semigroups, up to isomorphism. We divide them to two groups: finite and infinite. We show that every infinite monogenic ternary semigroup is isomorphic to the ternary semigroup O, the odd positive integers with ordinary addition. Then we prove that all finite monogenic ternary semigroups with the same index...

This paper studies FA-presentable structures and gives a complete classification of the finitely generated FA-presentable cancellative semigroups. We show that a finitely generated cancellative semigroup is FA-presentable if and only if it is a subsemigroup of a virtually abelian group.

–a notion of amenability for topological semigroups is introduced. a topological semigroup s iscalled johnson amenable if for every banach s -bimodule e , every bounded crossed homomorphism froms to e* is principal. in this paper it is shown that a discrete semigroup s is johnson amenable if and only if1(s) is an amenable banach algebra. also, we show that if a topological semigroup s is johns...

In this paper, we give some characterizations of intraregular semigroups by the properties of their (∈,∈ ∨qk)-fuzzy right ideals, (∈,∈ ∨qk)-fuzzy left ideals, (∈,∈ ∨qk)-fuzzy interior ideals, (∈,∈ ∨qk)fuzzy bi-ideals and (∈,∈ ∨qk)-fuzzy generalized bi-ideals. 2010 AMS Classification: 03E72, 20M12

We investigate the class of quasitrivial semigroups and provide various characterizations of the subclass of quasitrivial and commutative semigroups as well as the subclass of quasitrivial and order-preserving semigroups. We also determine explicitly the sizes of these classes when the semigroups are defined on finite sets. As a byproduct of these enumerations, we obtain several new integer seq...

This paper studies automatic structures for subsemigroups of Baumslag–Solitar semigroups (that is, semigroups presented by ⟨x, y | (yx, xy)⟩ where m,n ∈ N). A geometric argument (a rarity in the field of automatic semigroups) is used to show that if m > n, all of the finitely generated subsemigroups of this semigroup are [right-] automatic. If m < n, all of its finitely generated subsemigroups ...

In the present paper we give a partially negative answer to a conjecture of Ghahramani, Runde and Willis. We also discuss the derivation problem for both foundation semigroup algebras and Clifford semigroup algebras. In particular, we prove that if S is a topological Clifford semigroup for which Es is finite, then H1(M(S),M(S))={0}.