%0 Journal Article %A Akbarbaglu, I. %A Maghsoudi, S. %A Seoane-Sepúlveda, Juan B. %T Porosity and the lp-conjecture for semigroups %D 2016 %@ 15787303 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24391 %X In this paper, we consider the size of the set ( f, g) ∈ p(S) × q (S) : ∃ x ∈ S, | f |∗|g|(x) < ∞ , where p ∈ (1, +∞), q ∈ (0, +∞], and S stands for a discrete semigroup. In particular, we prove that if S is an infinite discrete semigroup, p ∈ (1, +∞), q ∈ (1, +∞] with 1/p+1/q < 1, then the set ( f, g) ∈ p(S)×q (S) : | f |∗|g| ∈ ∞(S) is a σ-c-lower porous set in p(S)×q (S)for some c > 0. By means of this notion of porosity we also provide a strengthening of a famous result by Rajagopalan on the p-conjecture. %~