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Each second countable abelian group is a subgroup of a second countable divisible group

General Topology 2008-10-20 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

It is shown that each pseudonorm defined on a subgroup HH of an abelian group GG can be extended to a pseudonorm on GG such that the densities of the obtained pseudometrizable topological groups coincide. We derive from this that any Hausdorff ω\omega-bounded group topology on HH can be extended to a Hausdorff ω\omega-bounded group topology on GG. In its turn this result implies that each separable metrizable abelian group HH is a subgroup of a separable metrizable divisible group GG. This result essentially relies on the Axiom of Choice and is not true under the Axiom of Determinacy (which contradicts to the Axiom of Choice but implies the Countable Axiom of Choice).

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@article{arxiv.0810.3030,
  title  = {Each second countable abelian group is a subgroup of a second countable divisible group},
  author = {T. Banakh and L. Zdomskyy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3030},
  year   = {2008}
}

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7 pages

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