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Point-Transitive Actions by the Unit Interval

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. T. Borrego
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
E. E. DeVun
Affiliation:
Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
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An action is a continuous function α: T × XX, where T is a semigroup, X is a Hausdorff space, and α(t1, α(t2, x)) = α(t1,t2x) for all t1, t2T and xX . If, for an action α, Q(α) = {xX| α(T × {x}) = X} is non-empty, then α is called a point-transitive action. Our aim in this note is to classify the point-transitive actions of the unit interval with the usual, nil, or min multiplications.

The reader is referred to [5; 7; 9] for information concerning the general theory of semigroups. All semigroups which are considered here are compact and Abelian and all spaces are compact Hausdorff. Actions by semigroups have been studied in [1; 3; 8].

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

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