Final group topologies, Kac-Moody groups and Pontryagin duality (Q611019): Difference between revisions

In the paper under review the authors study final group topologies and their relations to compactness properties. To start with the authors study situations ensuring that a final group topology is locally compact and present a large variety of non-trivial examples. Another situations the authors are interested in are when a colimit or direct limit is a \(k_{\omega}\)-space or is locally \(k_{\omega}\). In particular, the authors show that a topological group is locally \(k_{\omega}\) if and only if it has an open subgroup which is a \(k_{\omega} \)-group. As an application, it is shown that unitary forms of complex Kac-Moody groups can be described as the colimit of an amalgam of subgroups (in the category of Hausdorff topological groups, and the category of \(k_{\omega}\)-groups). Further, it is shown that \(G^*\) is locally \(k_{\omega}\) for metrizable \(G\), while \(G^*\) is almost metrizable whenever \(G\) is locally \(k_{\omega}\). The second application concerns Pontryagin duality theory and the authors manage to strengthen several results from [\textit{S. Ardanza-Trevijano} and \textit{M. J. Chasco}, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 202, No. 1--3, 11--21 (2005; Zbl 1090.22001)]. In particular, the authors explore the relation between countable projective limits of almost metrizable abelian groups and countable direct limits of locally \(k_{\omega}\) abelian groups.