Some monothetic subsemigroups of \(S(\mathbb{R})\)
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Some monothetic subsemigroups of \(S(\mathbb{R})\)
zbMATH Open document ID: 0838.20071
DOI: 10.1007/BF02574086
published in: Semigroup Forum
publication date: 1996-06-02T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/135438
review text: Let \(R^n\) denote the \(n\)-dimensional Euclidean topological space and denote by \(S(R^n)\) the semigroup, under composition, of all continuous selfmaps of \(R^n\). It has been known for a long time that \(S(R^n)\) contains a copy of every finite semigroup if \(n>1\). This is not at all the case for the semigroup \(S(R)\), of all continuous selfmaps of a space \(R\) of real numbers. For example, the only finite subgroups of \(S(R)\) are the cyclic groups of orders one and two. In general, however, not much seemed to have been known about the finite subsemigroups of \(S(R)\). For \(f\in S(R)\), denote by \(C(f)\) the cyclic subsemigroup which is generated by \(f\). The reviewer posed [in `Some properties of \(S(R)\)', Proc. Monash Conf. on Semigroup Theory (in honor of G. B. Preston) Ed. by T. E. Hall, P. R. Jones and J. C. Meakin, World Scientific, Inc., New Jersey, 163-179 (1991)]\ the problem of characterizing those functions \(f\in S(R)\) for which \(C(f)\) is a finite semigroup and conjectured that for a certain ``steplike'' function \(f_m\) with \(m\) ``steps'' where \(m\) is a positive integer, the order of the semigroup \(C(f_m)\) is \(2r+5\) where \(2^r\leq m< 2^{r+1}\) and \(r\) is a positive integer. In the main result of the paper, the author shows that this conjecture is true. He also determines that the order of \(C(f_m\circ f_m)\) is \(r+2\) which means that \(S(R)\) contains a subsemigroup of order \(n\) for each positive integer \(n\), a fact which heretofore did not seem to be known.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20M20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54H15
zbMATH DE Number: 836813
zbMATH Keywords: monothetic semigroups
zbMATH Keywords: semigroups of continuous selfmaps
zbMATH Keywords: finite subgroups
zbMATH Keywords: finite subsemigroups
zbMATH Keywords: cyclic subsemigroups
zbMATH Keywords: spaces of real numbers
author: Prabudh R. Misra
reviewed by: jun. Kenneth D. Magill
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: A survey of semigroups of continuous selfmaps
cites work: Some finitely generated subsemigroups of S(X)
Wikidata QID: Q126270950
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