Characterization of almost maximally almost-periodic groups

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Abstract: Let G be an abelian group. We prove that a group G admits a Hausdorff group topology au such that the von Neumann radical mathbfn(G,au) of (G,au) is non-trivial and finite iff G has a non-trivial finite subgroup. If G is a topological group, then mathbfn(mathbfn(G))ot=mathbfn(G) if and only if mathbfn(G) is not dually embedded. In particular, mathbfn(mathbfn(mathbbZ,au))=mathbfn(mathbbZ,au) for any Hausdorff group topology au on mathbbZ.


The author gives a partial answer to the question which Abelian groups \(G\) admit a Hausdorff group topology \(\tau\) such that \(n(n(G,\tau))\neq n(G,\tau)\) where \(n(G,\tau)\) is the von Neumann radical. Namely, the author proves that the answer to this question is negative for torsion free groups and is positive for groups that are not torsion free.











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