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The closed Steinhaus properties of $\sigma$-ideals on topological groups

General Topology 2015-10-01 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

We prove that any meager quasi-analytic subgroup of a topological group GG belongs to every σ\sigma-ideal I\mathcal I on GG possessing the closed ±n\pm n-Steinhaus property for some nNn\in\mathbb N. An ideal I\mathcal I on a topological group GG is defined to have the closed ±n\pm n-Steinhaus property if for any closed subsets A1,,AnIA_1,\dots,A_n\notin\mathcal I of GG the product (A1A11)(AnAn1)(A_1\cup A_1^{-1})\cdots (A_n\cup A_n^{-1}) is not nowhere dense in GG. Since the σ\sigma-ideal E\mathcal E generated by closed Haar null sets in a locally compact group GG has the closed ±2\pm 2-Steinhaus property, we conclude that each meager quasi-analytic subgroup HGH\subset G belongs to the ideal E\mathcal E. For analytic subgroups of the real line this result was proved by Laczkovich in 1998. We shall discuss possible generalizations of the Laczkovich Theorem to non-locally compact groups and construct an example of a meager Borel subgroup in Zω\mathbb Z^\omega which cannot be covered by countably many closed Haar-null (or even closed Haar-meager) sets. On the other hand, assuming that cof(M)=cov(M)=cov(N)cof(\mathcal M)=cov(\mathcal M)=cov(\mathcal N) we construct a subgroup H2ωH\subset 2^\omega which is meager and Haar null but does not belong to the σ\sigma-ideal E\mathcal E. The construction uses a new cardinal characteristic voc(I,J)voc^*(\mathcal I,\mathcal J) which seems to be interesting by its own.

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@article{arxiv.1509.09073,
  title  = {The closed Steinhaus properties of $\sigma$-ideals on topological groups},
  author = {Taras Banakh and Lesia Karchevska and Alex Ravsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.09073},
  year   = {2015}
}

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18 pages