Spaces which are retracts or cofactors of paratopological groups (Q2363283)

In [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 87, 187--188 (1983; Zbl 0504.54007)], \textit{V. V. Uspenskij} showed that for every Tychonoff space \(X\) there is a Tychonoff space \(Y\) such that \(X\times Y\) is homogeneous. The author investigates when a space is a factor (or a retract) of a topological group, or, more generally, a paratopological group. It turns out that in that case countable tightness very often implies countable (pseudo)character. This allows the author to conclude that familiar spaces such as the one-point compactification of an uncountable discrete space and \(\beta\omega\) are not retracts of paratopological groups. For compact retracts of paratoplogical groups there is a dichotomy: it is first-countable at a dense set of points or it maps onto the Tychonoff cube \([0,1]^{\omega_1}\).