One sided ideals and Carlson’s Theorem
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Abstract:
Using left ideals, right ideals, and the smallest two sided ideal in a compact right topological semigroup, we derive an extension of the Main Lemma to Carlson’s Theorem. This extension involves an infinite sequence of variable words over a finite alphabet, some of which are required to have the variable as the first letter and others of which are required to have the variable as the last letter.References
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Additional Information
- Neil Hindman
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059
- MR Author ID: 86085
- Email: nhindman@fac.howard.edu, nhindman@aol.com
- Randall McCutcheon
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 38152
- Email: randall@msci.memphis.edu
- Received by editor(s): October 16, 2000
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 19, 2001
- Published electronically: March 12, 2002
- Additional Notes: The first author acknowledges support received from the National Science Foundation (USA) via grant DMS-0070593
The second author acknowledges support received from the National Science Foundation via a post doctoral fellowship administered by the University of Maryland - Communicated by: John R. Stembridge
- © Copyright 2002 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 2559-2567
- MSC (1991): Primary 05D10; Secondary 22A15, 22A30, 54D30
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06396-7
- MathSciNet review: 1900862