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Enveloping Ellis semigroups as compactifications of transformations groups

General Topology 2025-07-29 v3 Group Theory

Abstract

The notion of a proper Ellis semigroup compactification is introduced. Ellis's functional approach shows how to obtain them from totally bounded equiuniformities on a phase space XX when the acting group GG is with the topology of pointwise convergence and the GG-space (G,X,)(G, X, \curvearrowright) is GG-Tychonoff. The correspondence between proper Ellis semigroup compactifications of a topological group and special totally bounded equiuniformities (called Ellis equiuniformities) on a topological group is established. The Ellis equiuniformity on a topological transformation group GG from the maximal equiuniformity on a phase space G/HG/H in the case of its uniformly equicontinuous action is compared with Roelcke uniformity on GG. Proper Ellis semigroup compactifications are described for groups S(X)S\,(X) (the permutation group of a discrete space XX) and Aut(X)Aut\,(X) (automorphism group of an ultrahomogeneous chain XX) in the permutation topology. It is shown that this approach can be applied to the unitary group of a Hilbert space.

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@article{arxiv.2412.04281,
  title  = {Enveloping Ellis semigroups as compactifications of transformations groups},
  author = {K. L. Kozlov and B. V. Sorin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04281},
  year   = {2025}
}
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