Abstract

We consider the enveloping semigroup of a flow generated by the action of a semitopological semigroup on any of its semigroup compactifications and explore the possibility of its being one of the known semigroup compactifications again. In this way, we introduce the notion of E-algebra, and show that this notion is closely related to the reductivity of the semigroup compactification involved. Moreover, the structure of the universal Eℱ-compactification is also given.