The Wallace problem: A counterexample from MAcountable and p-compactness

Canadian Mathematical Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 486-498

  Tomita, Artur H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Countable compactness; MAcountable; p compactness; Topological semigroups; Wallace problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030472163     PISSN: 00084395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4153/CMB-1996-057-6     Document Type: Article

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