Elliott, L., Jonušas, J., Mesyan, Z., Mitchell, J. D., Morayne, M., and Péresse, Y.
In this paper we explore the extent to which the algebraic structure of a monoid M determines the topologies on M that are compatible with its multiplication. Specifically we study the notions of automatic continuity; minimal Hausdorff or T_1 topologies; Polish semigroup topologies; and we formulate a notion of the Zariski topology for monoids and inverse monoids. If M is a topological monoid such that every homomorphism from M to a second countable topological monoid N is continuous, then we say that M has automatic continuity. We show that many well-known, and extensively studied, monoids have automatic continuity with respect to a natural semigroup topology, namely: the full transformation monoid \mathbb {N} ^\mathbb {N}; the full binary relation monoid B_{\mathbb {N}}; the partial transformation monoid P_{\mathbb {N}}; the symmetric inverse monoid I_{\mathbb {N}}; the monoid \operatorname {Inj}(\mathbb {N}) consisting of the injective transformations of \mathbb {N}; and the monoid C(2^{\mathbb {N}}) of continuous functions on the Cantor set 2^{\mathbb {N}}. The monoid \mathbb {N} ^\mathbb {N} can be equipped with the product topology, where the natural numbers \mathbb {N} have the discrete topology; this topology is referred to as the pointwise topology. We show that the pointwise topology on \mathbb {N} ^\mathbb {N}, and its analogue on P_{\mathbb {N}}, is the unique Polish semigroup topology on these monoids. The compact-open topology is the unique Polish semigroup topology on C(2 ^\mathbb {N}), and on the monoid C([0, 1] ^\mathbb {N}) of continuous functions on the Hilbert cube [0, 1] ^\mathbb {N}. The symmetric inverse monoid I_{\mathbb {N}} has at least 3 Polish semigroup topologies, but a unique Polish inverse semigroup topology. The full binary relation monoid B_{\mathbb {N}} has no Polish semigroup topologies, nor do the partition monoids. At the other extreme, \operatorname {Inj}(\mathbb {N}) and the monoid \operatorname {Surj}(\mathbb {N}) of all surjective transformations of \mathbb {N} each have infinitely many distinct Polish semigroup topologies. We prove that the Zariski topologies on \mathbb {N} ^\mathbb {N}, P_{\mathbb {N}}, and \operatorname {Inj}(\mathbb {N}) coincide with the pointwise topology; and we characterise the Zariski topology on B_{\mathbb {N}}. Along the way we provide many additional results relating to the Markov topology, the small index property for monoids, and topological embeddings of semigroups in \mathbb {N}^{\mathbb {N}} and inverse monoids in I_{\mathbb {N}}. Finally, the techniques developed in this paper to prove the results about monoids are applied to function clones. In particular, we show that: the full function clone has a unique Polish topology; the Horn clone, the polymorphism clones of the Cantor set and the countably infinite atomless Boolean algebra all have automatic continuity with respect to second countable function clone topologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]