Nested ideals and topologically $\mathbf u_\mathcal I$-torsion elements of the circle group
General Topology
2025-05-07 v1 Group Theory
Abstract
Let u=(un)n∈N be a sequence in N+ with u0=1 and un∣un+1 for every n∈N, and let bn:=un+1/un for every n∈N+. For every r∈[0,1), there exists a unique sequence (cn)n∈N+ in N such that r=∑n=1∞uncn, with cn<bn for every n∈N+, and cn<bn−1 for infinitely many n∈N+; let supp(r):={n∈N+:cn=0} and suppb(r):={n∈N+:cn=bn−1}. For x=r+Z∈T, let supp(x)=supp(r) and suppb(x)=suppb(r). For an ideal I of N, an element x of the circle group T is called a topologically uI-torsion element of T if unx I-converges to 0, that is, {n∈N:unx∈U}∈I for every neighborhood U of 0 in T. In this paper, under suitable conditions on the ideal I, we completely describe the uI-torsion elements x of T with limn∈supp(x)bn=∞ and those with {bn:n∈supp(x)} bounded. According to Corollary 2.12 in [A. Ghosh, Ric. Mat. 73 (2024), 2263--2281], an element x∈T with {bn:n∈supp(x)} bounded is topologically uI-torsion if and only if supp(x)+1∖supp(x)∈I and supp(x)∖suppb(x)∈I. We characterize the ideals I of N, naming them nested, such that this equivalence holds and we provide examples of non-nested ideals I that satisfy the above mentioned suitable conditions, so that the equivalence claimed by Ghosh fails for those I.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.03548,
title = {Nested ideals and topologically $\mathbf u_\mathcal I$-torsion elements of the circle group},
author = {R. Di santo and D. Dikranjan and A. Giordano Bruno and H. Weber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.03548},
year = {2025}
}