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Countably compact group topologies on arbitrarily large free Abelian groups

Logic 2021-03-25 v1 General Topology Group Theory

Abstract

We prove that if there are c\mathfrak c incomparable selective ultrafilters then, for every infinite cardinal κ\kappa such that κω=κ\kappa^\omega=\kappa, there exists a group topology on the free Abelian group of cardinality κ\kappa without nontrivial convergent sequences and such that every finite power is countably compact. In particular, there are arbitrarily large countably compact groups. This answers a 1992 question of D. Dikranjan and D. Shakhmatov.

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@article{arxiv.2103.12917,
  title  = {Countably compact group topologies on arbitrarily large free Abelian groups},
  author = {M. K. Bellini and K. P. Hart and V. O. Rodrigues and A. H. Tomita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.12917},
  year   = {2021}
}
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