Compact topologically torsion elements of topological abelian groups

Publication date 28 September 2006

Published in Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/108651

Topological methods for abelian groups (20K45) Structure of general topological groups (22A05) Topological groups (topological aspects) (54H11)

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Let \((G,+)\) be a Hausdorff topological abelian group. An element \(x\in G\) is \textit{compact} if the closed subgroup of \(G\) generated by \(x\) is compact. The compact elements of \(G\) form a subgroup denoted by \(bG\). For a prime \(p\), an element \(x\in G\) is called a \textit{topologically \(p\)-torsion element} if \(\lim_{n\to\infty} p^n x=0\). The subgroup \(G_p\) of \(G\) consisting of all topologically \(p\)-torsion elements is the \textit{\(p\)-component of \(G\)}. An element \(x\in G\) is said to be a \textit{topologically torsion element} if \(\lim_{n\to\infty} n!x=0\). The subset of \(G\) containing all torsion elements is denoted by \(G!\). The set \(G!\) actually is a subgroup of \(G\) which contains the \(p\)-component \(G_p\) of \(G\) for every prime \(p\). Also, \(G!\) is a subset of \(bG\) provided \(G\) is locally compact. The author first proves a result concerning compact monothetic groups which allows him to state the main theorem of the paper: The subgroup of \(G\) generated by all compact elements which are topologically \(p\)-torsion for some prime \(p\) is a dense subgroup of \(\overline{bG}\). This result yields a new proof for the fact that in a locally compact abelian group \(G\) the subgroup \(G!\) is dense in \(bG\) (the latter is known to be closed in case of a locally compact group). Also, the main result, combined with Pontryagin duality, leads to new descriptions of the identity component of a locally compact abelian group.

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