(1) George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 20052, USA;(2) University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada
Abstract:
Let
and
be groups and let
be an extension of
by
. Given a property
of group compactifications, one can ask whether there exist compactifications
and
of N and K such that the universal
-compactification of G is canonically isomorphic to an extension of
by
. We prove a theorem which gives necessary and sufficient conditions for this to occur for general properties
and then apply this result to the almost periodic and weakly almost periodic compactifications of G.