On the maximal -compactification of products of two -spaces.
We prove that the semigroup operation of a topological semigroup extends to a continuous semigroup operation on its Stone-Čech compactification provided is a pseudocompact openly factorizable space, which means that each map to a second countable space can be written as the composition of an open map onto a second countable space and a map . We present a spectral characterization of openly factorizable spaces and establish some properties of such spaces.
Let G be a locally compact Hausdorff group. We study equivariant absolute (neighborhood) extensors (G-AE's and G-ANE's) in the category G-ℳ of all proper G-spaces that are metrizable by a G-invariant metric. We first solve the linearization problem for proper group actions by proving that each X ∈ G-ℳ admits an equivariant embedding in a Banach G-space L such that L∖{0} is a proper G-space and L∖{0} ∈ G-AE. This implies that in G-ℳ the notions of G-A(N)E and G-A(N)R coincide. Our embedding result...
We show that for many natural topological groups G (including the group ℤ of integers) there exist compact metric G-spaces (cascades for G = ℤ) which are reflexively representable but not Hilbert representable. This answers a question of T. Downarowicz. The proof is based on a classical example of W. Rudin and its generalizations. A~crucial step in the proof is our recent result which states that every weakly almost periodic function on a compact G-flow X comes from a G-representation of X on reflexive...