Fragmentability of groups and metric-valued function spaces (Q649813)

The authors study the influence of the (\(\sigma\)-)fragmentability on properties of topological groups and function spaces. It particular, using the fragmentability machinery, the authors prove that each non-meager Tychonoff space with countable network weight has a point with countable character. This implies that each non-meager Tychonoff semi-topological group with countable network weight is a metrizable separable topological group. If a topological group \(G\) contains a \(G_\delta\)-subset which is not meager in the induced topology, then the fragmentability of \(G\) is equivalent to the countability of the pseudocharacter of \(G\). Using the game characterization of fragmentability, the authors prove that for the Tychonoff product \(K=\prod_{i\in I}K_i\) of compact Hausdorff spaces, the function space \(C_p(K)\) endowed with the topology of pointwise convergence is \(\sigma\)-fragmented by the sup-norm if for every \(i\in I\) the function space \(C_p(K_i)\) is \(\sigma\)-fragmented by the sup-norm.