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Relatively thin and sparse subsets of groups

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Let G be a group with identity e and let \( \mathcal{I} \) be a left-invariant ideal in the Boolean algebra \( {\mathcal{P}_G} \) of all subsets of G. A subset A of G is called \( \mathcal{I} \)-thin if \( gA \cap A \in \mathcal{I} \) for every gG\{e}. A subset A of G is called \( \mathcal{I} \)-sparse if, for T every infinite subset S of G, there exists a finite subset F ⊂ S such that \( \bigcap\nolimits_{g \in F} {gA \in \mathcal{F}} \). An ideal \( \mathcal{I} \) is said to be thin-complete (sparse-complete) if every \( \mathcal{I} \)-thin (\( \mathcal{I} \)-sparse) subset of G belongs to \( \mathcal{I} \). We define and describe the thin-completion and the sparse-completion of an ideal in \( {\mathcal{P}_G} \).

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Published in Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 216–225, February, 2011.

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Lutsenko, I., Protasov, I.V. Relatively thin and sparse subsets of groups. Ukr Math J 63, 254–265 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-011-0502-3

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