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Ideals in $\mathcal{P} _G$ and $\beta G$

General Topology 2017-04-11 v1

Abstract

For a discrete group GG, we use the natural correspondence between ideals in the Boolean algebra PG \mathcal{P}_G of subsets of GG and closed subsets in the Stone-Cˇ\check{C}ech compactifi-cation βG\beta G as a right topological semigroup to introduce and characterize some new ideals in βG\beta G. We show that if a group GG is either countable or Abelian then there are no closed ideals in βG\beta G maximal in GG^*, G=βGGG^* = \beta G \setminus G, but this statement does not hold for the group SκS_\kappa of all permutations of an infinite cardinal κ\kappa. We characterize the minimal closed ideal in βG\beta G containing all idempotents of GG^*.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02494,
  title  = {Ideals in $\mathcal{P} _G$ and $\beta G$},
  author = {Igor Protasov and Ksenia Protasova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02494},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Keywords: Stone-$\check{C}$ech compactification, Boolean algebra, ideal, filter, ultrafilter

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