A note on the topological group \(c_0\) (Q2305947)

Summary: A well-known result of Ferri and Galindo asserts that the topological group \(c_0\) is not reflexively representable and the algebra \(\mathrm{WAP}(c_0)\) of weakly almost periodic functions does not separate points and closed subsets. However, it is unknown if the same remains true for a larger important algebra \(\mathrm{Tame}(c_0)\) of tame functions. Respectively, it is an open question if \(c_0\) is representable on a Rosenthal Banach space. In the present work we show that \(\mathrm{Tame}(c_0)\) is small in a sense that the unit sphere \(S\) and \(2S\) cannot be separated by a tame function \(f\in\mathrm{Tame}(c_0)\). As an application we show that the Gromov's compactification of \(c_0\) is not a semigroup compactification. We discuss some questions.