Reflexively representable but not Hilbert representable compact flows and semitopological semigroups

Colloquium Mathematicum

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 383-407

  Megrelishvili, Michael ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Enveloping semigroup; Fourier Stieltjes algebra; Matrix coefficient; Positive definite function; Semitopological semigroup; Wap compactification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989327544     PISSN: 00101354     EISSN: 17306302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4064/cm110-2-5     Document Type: Article

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