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Extremal pseudocompact Abelian groups are compact metrizable

Author(s): W. W. Comfort; Jan van Mill
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 4039-4044.
MSC (2000): Primary 22A05, 22B05
Posted: August 30, 2007
MathSciNet review: 2341956
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Abstract: Every pseudocompact Abelian group of uncountable weight has both a proper dense pseudocompact subgroup and a strictly finer pseudocompact group topology.


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Additional Information:

W. W. Comfort
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06459
Email: wcomfort@wesleyan.edu

Jan van Mill
Affiliation: Faculteit Exacte Wetenschappen, Afdeling Wiskunde, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081A, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Email: vanmill@cs.vu.nl

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-07-08952-6
PII: S 0002-9939(07)08952-6
Keywords: Pseudocompact topological group, extremal topological group, proper dense pseudocompact subgroup, Abelian
Received by editor(s): November 20, 2005
Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 2, 2006
Posted: August 30, 2007
Communicated by: Alexander N. Dranishnikov
Copyright of article: Copyright 2007, American Mathematical Society




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