Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4660904 | Topology and its Applications | 2009 | 9 Pages |
A topologized semigroup X having an evenly continuous resp., topologically equicontinuous, family RX of right translations is investigated. It is shown that: (1) every left semitopological semigroup X with an evenly continuous family RX is a topological semigroup, (2) a semitopological group X is a paratopological group if and only if the family RX is evenly continuous and (3) a semitopological group X is a topological group if and only if the family RX is topologically equicontinuous. In particular, we get that for any paratopological group X which is not a topological group, the family RX provides an example of a transitive group of homeomorphisms of X that is evenly continuous and not topologically equicontinuous. The last conclusion answers negatively a question posed by H.L. Royden.