Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2009
Biles (1970) has called a subring A of the ring C(X), of all real valued continuous functions on a topological space X, a Wallman ring on X whenever Z(A), the zero sets of functions belonging to A, forms a normal base on X in the sense of Frink (1964). Previously, we have related algebraic properties of a Wallman ring A to topological properties of the Wallman compactification w(Z(A)) of X determined by the normal base Z(A). Here we introduce two different generalizations of the concept of “a C*-embedded subset” and study relationships between these and topological (respectively, algebraic) properties of w(Z(A)) (respectively, A).