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Embedding inverse semigroups of homeomorphisms on closed subsets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

Bridget Bos Baird
Bridget Bos Baird
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York 14226, U.S.A.
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All topological spaces here are assumed to be T2. The collection F(Y)of all homeomorphisms whose domains and ranges are closed subsets of a topological space Y is an inverse semigroup under the operation of composition. We are interested in the general problem of getting some information about the subsemigroups of F(Y) whenever Y is a compact metric space. Here, we specifically look at the problem of determining those spaces X with the property that F(X) is isomorphic to a subsemigroup of F(Y). The main result states that if X is any first countable space with an uncountable number of points, then the semigroup F(X) can be embedded into the semigroup F(Y) if and only if either X is compact and Y contains a copy of X, or X is noncompact and locally compact and Y contains a copy of the one-point compactification of X.

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Research Article
Information
Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , July 1977 , pp. 199 - 207
Copyright
Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1977

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