Topological groups and semigroups. (English) Zbl 0798.22001

Comfort, W. W.; Hofmann, Karl Heinrich; Remus, D.

Hušek, Miroslav (ed.) et al., Recent progress in general topology. Papers from the Prague Toposym 1991, held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Aug. 19-23, 1991. Amsterdam: North-Holland. 57-144 (1992).

This is purely a survey article, with no proofs, of developments since 1986 in selected topics. Section 2 deals with various aspects of the relationship between topological groups and topological semigroups, the next with certain aspects of the theory of topological groups and the final section with free topological groups.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0782.00072].

Reviewer: John W.Baker (Sheffield)

MSC:

22-02	Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to topological groups
22A05	Structure of general topological groups
22A15	Structure of topological semigroups
54H11	Topological groups (topological aspects)

Keywords:

survey; topological groups; topological semigroups; free topological groups