Two weak forms of countability axioms in free topological groups (Q284610)

Let \(F(X)\) and \(A(X)\), respectively, be the free topological group and the free abelian topological group over a given Tychonoff space \(X\) in the sense of \textit{A. A. Markoff, jun.} [C. R. Acad. Sci. URSS (2) 31, 299--301 (1941; JFM 67.0750.01)]. For every \(n\in \mathbb{N}\) let \(F_n(X)\) (resp., \(A_n(X))\) denote the subspace of \(F(X)\) (resp., \(A(X)\)) that consists of words of reduced length at most \(n\) with respect to the free basis \(X\). In this paper, two weak forms of countability axioms in \(F(X)\) and \(A(X)\), namely \textit{csf}-countability and \textit{snf}-countability are considered and some characterizations of \textit{csf}-countability and \textit{snf}-countability of \(F(X)\) and \(A(X)\) for various classes of spaces \(X\) are given. Further, \(csf\)-countability and \textit{snf}-countability of \(F_n(X)\) and \(A_n(X)\), for \(n =2, 3, 4\) are given.