Abstract:
In this paper the case of topological semigroups that are cancellative and right reversible is considered. It is shown (Theorem 1) that the existence in such a semigroup of a left invariant measure satisfying certain conditions is equivalent to the imbeddability of some open ideal of the given semigroup as an open subsemigroup in a locally compact group of left fractions. Conditions for imbedding topological semigroups in locally compact groups are considered in measure-theoretic terms.
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