English

On Hereditarily Normal Topological Groups

General Topology 2012-09-11 v2

Abstract

In this paper we investigate hereditarily normal topological groups and their subspaces. We prove that every compact subspace of a hereditarily normal topological group is metrizable. To prove this statement we first show that a hereditarily normal topological group with a non-trivial convergent sequence has GδG_\delta-diagonal. This implies, in particular, that every countably compact subset of a hereditarily normal topological group with a non-trivial convergent sequence is metrizable. Another corollary is that under the Proper Forcing Axiom, every countably compact subset of a hereditarily normal topological group is metrizable.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1209.0847,
  title  = {On Hereditarily Normal Topological Groups},
  author = {Raushan Buzyakova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.0847},
  year   = {2012}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-21T21:59:57.017Z