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Solutions to some problems in amenable semigroups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

S. K. Ayyaswamy
Affiliation:
Arul Anandar College, Karuthmathur, Madurai-626 514, India
P. V. Ramakrishnan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai-625 021, India

Synopsis

This paper discusses a few problems on the size of the set of invariant means of an amenable semigroup posed by Maria M. Klawe, Alan L. T. Paterson and M. Rajagopalan and P. V. Ramakrishnan ([4], [5], [8] and [9]).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1986

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