Factors and Extensions of Full Shifts.
We describe the extension of the multiplication on a not-necessarily-discrete topological monoid to its flow compactification. We offer two applications. The first is a nondiscrete version of Hindman’s Theorem, and the second is a characterization of the projective minimal and elementary flows in terms of idempotents of the flow compactification of the monoid.
The purpose of this note is two-fold: firstly, to give a new and interesting result concerning separate and joint continuity, and secondly, to give a stream-lined (and self-contained) proof of the fact that "tame" CHART groups are topological groups.