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On closed subgroups of precompact groups

Group Theory 2022-05-17 v2 General Topology

Abstract

It is a Theorem of W.~ W. Comfort and K.~ A. Ross that if GG is a subgroup of a compact Abelian group, and SS denotes those continuous homomorphisms from GG to the one-dimensional torus, then the topology on GG is the initial topology given by SS. {Assume that HH is a subgroup of GG. We study how} the choice of SS affects the topological placement and properties of HH in GG. Among other results, we have {made significant} progress toward the solution of the following specific questions: How many totally bounded group topologies does GG admit such that HH is a closed (dense) subgroup? If CSC_S denotes the poset of all subgroups of GG that are SS-closed, ordered by inclusion, does CSC_S has a greatest (resp. smallest) element? We say that a totally bounded (topological, resp.) group is an \textit{SC-group} (\textit{topologically simple}, resp.) if all its subgroups are closed (if GG and {e}\{e\} are its only possible closed normal subgroups, resp.) {In addition, we investigate the following questions.} How many SC-(topologically simple totally bounded, resp.) group topologies does an arbitrary Abelian group GG admit?

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@article{arxiv.2203.00334,
  title  = {On closed subgroups of precompact groups},
  author = {Salvador Hernández and Dieter Remus and F. Javier Trigos-Arrieta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.00334},
  year   = {2022}
}
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