Semigroups generated by cosets and characteristics functions of semigroups

Author(s)

Laercio Jose dos Santos

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica
• Defense date: 2007-06-28

Examining board members

Luiz Antonio Barrera San Martin; Pedro Jose Catuogno; Osvaldo Germano do Rocio; Alexandre José Santana; Marcelo Firer

• Advisor: Luiz Antonio Barrera San Martin

Abstract

This work is made of two parts. In the first one, we gave necessary and sufficient conditions for a family of cosets of a Lie subgroup to generate a subsemigroup with nonempty interior. We apply these conditions to symmetric pairs where the group is semi-simple. As a consequence we prove that for several involutive automorphisms the fixed points subgroup is a maximal semigroup. In the second part, we define a characteristic function of a subsemigroup of a semi- simple Lie group and we find a subset where the function is defined. This is made through general theory of semigroups in semi-simple groups. The characteristic function is used, together with some additional hypothesis, for to create a Riemannian metric in the orbits of the unity subgroup of the semigroup. With this metric we gave a necessary condition for a subgroup be embedded in a proper semigroup with nonempty interior (AU)