Proper pseudocompact extensions of compact abelian group topologies

Comfort, W. W.; Robertson, Lewis C.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1982-0663891-4

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Proper pseudocompact extensions of compact abelian group topologies

Authors: W. W. Comfort and Lewis C. Robertson
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 86 (1982), 173-178
MSC: Primary 22B05; Secondary 22D05, 54H99
MathSciNet review: 663891
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Abstract: A compact Abelian group admits a strictly finer pseudocompact topological group topology if and only if the weight of is uncountable.

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