Publications

Feel free to contact us for any of the articles below. There are also some preprints available.

Recent Articles

1. M. Filali and T. Vedenjuoksu, Extreme non-Arens irregularity of Semigroup Algebras, 2008, Topology Proceedings (To appear in 2009). Preprint available (PDF).
2. M. Filali and T. Alaste, Slowly oscillating functions and closed left ideals in βS, 2008, Topology and its Applications (getting revised). Preprint available (PDF).
3. M. Filali and T. Vedenjuoksu, The Stone-Čech compactification of topological groups and the β-extension property, 2008, Houston J. Math. (To appear). Preprint available (PDF).
4. M. Filali and P. Salmi, Topological Centres of Weighted Convolution Algebras, 2008, Bulletin of Canadian Math. Soc. (To appear). Preprint available (PDF).
5. M. Filali and P. Salmi, On the size of the quotient LUC(G)/UC(G), 2008, Preprint available (PDF).
6. M. Filali and T. Vedenjuoksu, The Stone-Čech compactification and the extension property of semigroups, 2008 (Submitted). Preprint available (PDF).
7. A. Bouziad and M. Filali, On the size of quotients of function spaces on a topological group, 2008, Preprint available (PDF).
8. M. Filali, E. Lutsenko and I. Protasov, Boolean group ideals and the ideal structure of βG, 2008 (To appear). Preprint available (PDF).
9. M. Eshaghi Gordji and M. Filali, Arens Regularity of Module Actions, 2007, Studia Math., Preprint available (PDF).
10. M. Eshaghi Gordji and M. Filali, Weak Amenability of the Second Dual of a Banach Algebra, 2007, Studia Math., Preprint available (PDF).
11. M. Filali and I. Protasov, Asymptotic oscillations, Topology Appl. 154 (2007), no. 3, 561-566.
12. M. Filali and P. Salmi, Slowly oscillating functions in semigroup compactifications and convolution algebras, Journal of Functional Analysis 250 (2007), no. 1, 144-166.
13. M. Filali and I. Protasov, Spread of balleans, 2008, Applied General Topology (To appear).
14. M. Filali, On the Actions of a Locally Compact Group on Some of its Semigroup Compactifications, Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 143 (2007), no. 1, 25-39.
15. M. Filali and P. Salmi, On one-sided ideals and right cancellation in the second dual of the group algebra and similar algebras, J. London Math. Soc. (PDF).
16. M. Filali and I. Protasov, Slowly oscillating functions on locally compact groups, Applied General Topology 6 (2005) , 67-77.
17. P. Salmi, On the continuity of left translations in the LUC-compactification, Topology Appl. 153 (2005), no. 4, 640--646.
18. A. Derighetti, M. Filali and M. S. Monfared, On the ideal structure of some Banach algebras related to convolution operators on L^p(G), Journal of Functional Analysis 215 (2004), 341-365.
19. M. Filali and J. S. Pym, Right cancellation in the LUC-compactification of a locally compact group, Bulletin London Math. Soc. 35 (2003), 128-134.
20. M. Filali, t-Sets and some algebraic properties in βG and l_∞(S)*, Semigroup Forum 65 (2002), 285-300.
21. J. W. Baker and M. Filali, On the analogue of Veech’s theorem in the WAP−compactification of a locally compact group, Semigroup Forum 65 (2002), 107–112.
22. M. Filali, On a conjecture of Chou and applications, Proceedings of the 14th Summer Conference on General Topology and its Applications (Brookville, NY, 1999). Topology Proceedings 24 (2001), 139-147.
23. J. W. Baker and M. Filali, On minimal ideals in some Banach algebras associated with a locally compact group, J. London Math. Soc. (2) 63 (2001), 83-98.

Book(s)

• M. Filali and I. Protasov, Ultrafilters and Topologies on Groups , Math. Stud. Monogr. Ser., VNTL, Lviv., To appear, (PDF / PS).

Licenciate and Doctoral theses

Here are prefaces and contents of licenciate theses and doctoral dissertations of group members. For a complete document, please contact us.

• Tomi Alaste, Perfect Semigroups and The Bohr Compactification of Conoids, Licenciate Thesis 2006, (PDF / PS).
• Tero Vedenjuoksu, Completions and Semigroup Compactifications of Topological Groups, Licenciate Thesis 2006, (PDF / PS).
• Pekka Salmi, The Set of Idempotents is Not Closed in the Weakly Almost Periodic Compactification of Integers, Licenciate Thesis 2003, (PDF).
• Pekka Salmi, Uniform points in the LUC-compactification with applications to certain Banach algebras, Academic Dissertation 2005, (PDF).