A survey on reflexivity of abelian topological groups (Q429315)

The paper surveys reflexivity of abelian topological groups. Recall that a topological group is said to be reflexive if the canonical map from the group to its bidual group is a topological isomorphism (the dual group \(\widehat G\) of \(G\) being the collection of continuous homomorphisms to the circle group with pointwise multiplication and compact-open topology). Emphasis is given to strongly reflexive groups, meaning abelian topological groups \(G\) such that all closed subgroups and Hausdorff quotients of both \(G\) and \(\widehat G\) are reflexive. Of course every locally compact abelian group is strongly reflexive, so the interest lies beyond local compactness. In particular, the authors review the case of the following classes of groups: metrizable and almost metrizable groups, nuclear groups, precompact groups, pseudocompact groups, \(\omega\)-bounded groups, and \(P\)-groups. The paper includes numerous open questions.