Classifying the Polish semigroup topologies on the symmetric inverse monoid
Bardyla, Serhii, Elliott, Luna, Mitchell, James and Péresse, Yann
(2026)
Classifying the Polish semigroup topologies on the symmetric inverse monoid.
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.
pp. 1-30.
ISSN 0013-0915
We classify all Polish semigroup topologies on the symmetric inverse monoid on the natural numbers . This result answers a question of Elliott et al. There are countably infinitely many such topologies. Under containment, these Polish semigroup topologies form a join-semilattice with infinite descending chains, no infinite ascending chains, and arbitrarily large finite anti-chains. Also, we show that the monoid endowed with any second countable semigroup topology is homeomorphic to the Baire space .
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Identification Number | 10.1017/s0013091525101302 |
| Additional information | © The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press on Behalf of The Edinburgh Mathematical Society. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) |
| Keywords | polish semigroup, 20m18, 22a15, baire space, poset of polish topologies, symmetric inverse monoid, 20m20, 54h15 |
| Date Deposited | 31 Mar 2026 08:37 |
| Last Modified | 01 Apr 2026 05:05 |
