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Two countably compact topological groups: One of size $\aleph_\omega$ and the other of weight $\aleph_\omega$ without non-trivial convergent sequences

Author(s): Artur Hideyuki Tomita
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 131 (2003), 2617-2622.
MSC (2000): Primary 54H11, 54A25, 54A35; Secondary 22A05
Posted: March 11, 2003
MathSciNet review: 1974663
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Abstract: E. K. van Douwen asked in 1980 whether the cardinality of a countably compact group must have uncountable cofinality in $\mathrm{ZFC}$. He had shown that this was true under GCH. We answer his question in the negative. V. I. Malykhin and L. B. Shapiro showed in 1985 that under GCH the weight of a pseudocompact group without non-trivial convergent sequences cannot have countable cofinality and showed that there is a forcing model in which there exists a pseudocompact group without non-trivial convergent sequences whose weight is $\omega_1<{\mathfrak c}$. We show that it is consistent that there exists a countably compact group without non-trivial convergent sequences whose weight is $\aleph_\omega$.


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Additional Information:

Artur Hideyuki Tomita
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66281 CEP 05311-970, São Paulo, Brazil
Email: tomita@ime.usp.br

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-03-06933-8
PII: S 0002-9939(03)06933-8
Keywords: Forcing, countably compact group, cofinality, weight
Received by editor(s): October 15, 2001
Received by editor(s) in revised form: January 15, 2002
Posted: March 11, 2003
Additional Notes: This research was partially conducted while the author was visiting the Department of Mathematics of Universidade de Coimbra. This visit was supported by CCINT-USP and the local organizing committee of the Fourth Ibero American Congress of Topology and its Applications
Communicated by: Alan Dow
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society




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