ABSTRACT. We consider various algebras of functions on a semitopological left-group S = X X G, the direct product of a left-zero semigroup X and a group G. In § 1 we examine various analogues to the theorem of Eberlein that a weakly almost periodic function on a locally compact abelian group is uniformly continuous. Several appealing conjectures are shown by example to be false. In the second section we look at compactifications of products S X T of semitopological semigroups with right identity and left identity, respectively. We show that the almost periodic compactification of the product is the product of the almost periodic compactifications, thus generalizing a result of deLeeuw and Glicksberg. The weakly almost periodic compactification of the product is not the product of the weakly almost periodic compactifications except in restrictive circumstances; for instance, when T is a compact group. Finally, as an application, we define and study analytic weakly almost periodic functions and derive the theorem, analogous to a classical theorem about almost periodic functions, that an analytic function which is weakly almost periodic on a single line is analytic weakly almost periodic on a whole strip.
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