{ "id": "1106.4735", "version": "v4", "published": "2011-06-23T14:18:44.000Z", "updated": "2018-07-16T16:52:46.000Z", "title": "Hindman's Theorem, Ellis's Lemma, and Thompson's group $F$", "authors": [ "Justin Tatch Moore" ], "comment": "This paper has now appeared but is largely obsolete: Conjectures 1.3 and 1.4 have since been refuted by the author. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1209.2063", "journal": "Zbornik Radova. (Beograd), Selected topics in combinatorial analysis, 17(25):171-187, 2015", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.DS", "math.FA", "math.GN", "math.GR", "math.LO" ], "abstract": "The purpose of this article is to formulate conjectural generalizations of Hindman's Theorem and Ellis's Lemma for nonassociative binary systems and relate them to the amenability problem for Thompson's group $F$. Partial results are obtained for both conjectures. The paper will also contain some general analysis of the conjectures.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2012-09-11T20:36:37.000Z", "title": "Hindman's Theorem, Ellis's Lemma, and Thompson's group F", "abstract": "The purpose of this article is to formulate generalizations of Hindman's Theorem and Ellis's Lemma for non associative groupoids. A relation between these conjectures is proved and it is shown that they imply the amenability of Thompson's group F. In fact the amenability of F is equivalent to a finite form of the conjectured extension of Hindman's Theorem.", "comment": "This paper has been made obsolete by arXiv:1209.2063", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v4", "updated": "2018-07-16T16:52:46.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "03E02", "03E50", "05D10", "05C55", "20F38", "43A07" ], "keywords": [ "hindmans theorem", "thompsons group", "elliss lemma", "formulate generalizations", "non associative groupoids" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1106.4735T" } } }