Recurrent and weakly recurrent points in G
Structure of general topological groups (22A05) Special sets (thin sets, Kronecker sets, Helson sets, Ditkin sets, Sidon sets, etc.) (43A46) Almost periodic functions on groups and semigroups and their generalizations (recurrent functions, distal functions, etc.); almost automorphic functions (43A60) Extensions of spaces (compactifications, supercompactifications, completions, etc.) (54D35)
Let G be a (discrete) group and \(\beta\) G its Čech-Stone compactification. For a set \(A\subset G\) \(\bar A\) means the closure of A in \(\beta\) G and \(\hat A=\bar A\setminus G\). A point \(\omega\in \hat G\) is said to be discrete iff there exists a neighborhood U of \(\omega\) such that \(g\omega\) \(\not\in U\) for every \(g\in G\), \(g\neq e\). \(\omega\) is called strongly discrete iff, for some neighborhood U of \(\omega\), for any \(g_ 1,g_ 2\in G\), \(g_ 1\neq g_ 2\), one has \(g_ 1U\cap g_ 2U=\emptyset\); \(\omega\) is almost periodic iff for any neighborhood U of \(\omega\) there are sets A and K in G such that K is finite, \(G=KA\), \(A\omega\) \(\subset U\). A not (strongly) discrete point of \(\hat G\) is called (weakly) recurrent. A set \(A\subset G\) is thin iff \(g_ 1A\cap g_ 2A\) is finite whenever \(g_ 1\neq g_ 2.\) The author proves that for the set SD of strongly discrete points one has (*) \(SD=\cup \{\hat A:\) A is thin\(\}\). He makes use of this theorem for proving the existence of a weakly recurrent not almost periodic point in \(\hat G\) for G belonging to a class of groups introduced by Fairchild which contains all infinite abelian or solvable groups. That proof is not convincing because one does not see how (*) implies that for a not thin set \(A\subset G\) one necessarily has \(\hat A\not\subset SD\) as the author claims. However, assuming additionally that G has an element of infinite order he proves independently the existence of a recurrent not almost periodic point in \(\hat G.\) - Some inconvenience for the reader is caused by bad typography of symbols, misprints and a rather neglected grammar.
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