The Analytical and Topological Theory of Semigroups : : Trends and Developments / / ed. by Jimmie D. Lawson, John S. Pym, Karl H. Hofmann.

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• MitwirkendeR: Baker, J. W.,; Berg, C.,; Darling, R. W. R.,; Heyer, H.,; Hilgert, J.,; Hindman, N.,; Hofmann, K. H.,; Kupka, I.,; Lau, A. T.-M.,; Lawson, J. D.,; Magill, K. D. Jr,; Mislove, M. W.,; Mukherjea, A.,; Pym, J. S.,; Renner, L. E.,; Ruppert, W. A. F.,; Troallic, J.-P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Hofmann, Karl H.,; Lawson, Jimmie D.,; Pym, John S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (398 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Part I. Lie theory and algebraic geometry
• Lie groups and semigroups
• Applications of Lie semigroups in analysis
• Embedding semigroups into Lie groups
• Algebraic varieties and semigroups
• Part II. The compact case
• Compact semilattices, partial orders and topology
• Compact semitopological semigroups
• Semigroupes affines semitopologiques compacts
• Compact semigroups with one-sided continuity
• Part III. Functional analysis on semigroups
• Measure algebras on semigroups
• Positive definite and related functions on semigroups
• Convolution semigroups and potential kernels on a commutative hypergroup
• Amenability of semigroups
• Part IV. Applications: Systems theory, number theory, probability, topology
• Applications of semigroups to geometric control theory
• The semigroup βℕ and its applications to number theory
• Probability measures on semigroups of nonnegative matrices
• Some trends and directions in the investigation of congruences on S(X)
• List of contributors
• Backmatter