TY - JOUR AB - Let S be a subsemigroup of a simply connected nilpotent Lie group G. We construct an asymptotic semigroup S-0 in the associated graded Lie group G(0) of G. We can compute the image of S-0 in the abelianization G(0)(ab) = G(ab). This gives useful information about S. As an application, we obtain a transparent proof of the following result of E. B. Vinberg and the author: either there is an epimorphism f : G -> R such that f (s) >= 0 for every s in S or the closure (S) over bar of S is a subgroup of G and G/(S) over bar is compact. DA - 2021 DO - 10.1007/s00031-021-09684-7 LA - eng PY - 2021 SN - 1083-4362 TI - THE ASYMPTOTIC SEMIGROUP OF A SUBSEMIGROUP OF A NILPOTENT LIE GROUP UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29597419 Y2 - 2025-01-31T12:49:17 ER -