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Haar measure and compact right topological groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Paul Milnes
Paul Milnes
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Department of MathematicsUniversity of Western OntarioLondon Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
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The consideration of compact right topological groups goes back at least to a paper of Ellis in 1958, where it is shown that a flow is distal if and only if the enveloping semigroup of the flow is such a group (now called the Ellis group of the distal flow). Later Ellis, and also Namioka, proved that a compact right topological group admits a left invariant probability measure. As well, Namioka proved that there is a strong structure theorem for compact right topological groups. More recently, John Pym and the author strengthened this structure theorem enough to be able to establish the existence of Haar measure on a compact right topological group, a probability measure that is invariant under all continuous left and right translations, and is unique as such. Examples of compact right topological groups have been considered earlier. In the present paper, we give concrete representations of several Ellis groups coming from low dimensional nilpotent Lie groups. We study these compact right topological groups, and two others, in some detail, paying attention in particular to the structure theorem and Haar measure, and to the question: is Haar measure uniquely determined by left invariance alone? (It is uniquely determined by right invariance alone.) To assist in answering this question, we develop some sufficient conditions for a positive answer. We suspect that one of the examples, a compact right topological group coming from the Euclidean group of the plane, does not satisfy these conditions; we don't know if the question has a positive answer for this group.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , June 1992 , pp. 399 - 413
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1992

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