Classifying the Polish semigroup topologies on the symmetric inverse monoid
Rings and Algebras
2026-03-11 v2 General Topology
Abstract
We classify all Polish semigroup topologies on the symmetric inverse monoid on the natural numbers. This result answers a question of Elliott et al. There are countably infinitely many such topologies. Under containment, these Polish semigroup topologies form a join-semilattice with infinite descending chains, no infinite ascending chains, and arbitrarily large finite anti-chains. Also, we show that the monoid endowed with any second countable T_1 semigroup topology is homeomorphic to the Baire space.
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@article{arxiv.2405.20134,
title = {Classifying the Polish semigroup topologies on the symmetric inverse monoid},
author = {Serhii Bardyla and Luna Elliott and James Mitchell and Yann Péresse},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.20134},
year = {2026}
}
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