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DTC ultrafilters on groups

Group Theory 2021-04-15 v3 General Topology

Abstract

We say that an ultrafilter on an infinite group GG is DTC if it determines the topological centre of the semigroup βG\beta G. We prove that DTC ultrafilters do not exist for virtually BFC groups, and do exist for the countable groups that are not virtually FC. In particular, an infinite finitely generated group is virtually abelian if and only if it does not admit a DTC ultrafilter.

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@article{arxiv.1910.07505,
  title  = {DTC ultrafilters on groups},
  author = {Jan Pachl and Juris Steprāns},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07505},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

8 pages. Version 2 includes changes in section 3 and a correction in Example 5.4. Version 3 incorporates minor editing changes

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