in this paper we establish a characterization of abelian compact hausdorff semigroups with unique idempotent and ideal retraction property. we also introduce a function algebra on a semitopological semigroup whose associated semigroup compactification is universal withrespect to these properties.

We characterize those regular continuous frames for which the least compactification is a perfect compactification. Perfect compactifications are those compactifications of frames for which the right adjoint of the compactification map preserves disjoint binary joins. Essential to our characterization is the construction of the frame analog of the twopoint compactification of a locally compact ...

In this paper we introduce GF-compactifications, which are compactifications of GF-spaces (a new notion introduced by the authors). We study properties of this new kind of compactification and prove that every GF-compactification is of Wallman type. We also prove that every metrizable compactification of a metric space X is a GF-compactification and, as a corollary, that every metric compactifi...

Let GL(n, C) ⊃ Un be the group of n× n complex valued invertible matrices and the subgroup of unitary matrices respectively. In this paper we study Finsler p-metrics on the homogeneous space Xn = GL(n, C)/Un for p ∈ [1,∞], which are induced by Schatten p-norms on the tangent bundle of Xn and are invariant under the action of GL(n, C). We show that for p ∈ (1,∞) the Busemann p-compactification i...