scientific article; zbMATH DE number 125732

Publication date 21 February 1993

uniformly continuous real-valued functions

Analysis on general topological groups (22A10) Uniform structures and generalizations (54E15) Topological groups (topological aspects) (54H11)

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0744.00027.] Let us say for brevity (reviewer's notation) that a topological group \(G\) satisfies L\(\simeq\)R if \(G\) has equivalent left and right uniform structures, and denote by \(\text{LUC}(G)\) [resp., \(\text{RUC}(G)]\) the set of left [resp., right] uniformly continuous real-valued functions on \(G\). As is well known, the condition that \(G\) satisfies L\(\simeq\)R is equivalent to the condition that \(G\) is a SIN-group, i.e., to the condition that for every neighborhood \(U\) of \(e\) in \(G\) the set \(\bigcap_{x\in G}xUx^{-1}\) is a neighborhood of \(e\). Unifying and extending results from the literature, this survey lists many conditions on a locally compact group \(G\), some of them due to the author, equivalent to the condition that \(G\) satisfies L\(\simeq\)R. Among the conditions are these (reviewer's numbers): (1) every open \(\sigma\)- compact subgroup of \(G\) satisfies L\(\simeq\)R; (2) every open, continuous, locally compact homomorphic image of \(G\) satisfies L\(\simeq\)R; (3) \(\text{LUC}(G)=\text{RUC}(G)\). Most of the equivalences asserted here are proved in detail in [the author, \textit{S. Rothman}, \textit{H. Strassberg}, and \textit{T. S. Wu}, Topology Appl. 47, No. 1, 9-34 (1992; Zbl 0768.54021]; it is shown there (in effect) that if \(G\) is locally compact and \(\text{LUC}(G)\subseteq\text{RUC}(G)\) fails, then there is bounded \(f\in\text{LUC}(G)\backslash\text{RUC}(G)\). The author notes that several of the many conditions he lists are known to be equivalent to L\(\simeq\)R for arbitrary Hausdorff (not necessarily locally compact) groups; the question of the remaining equivalences is left unsolved. Reviewer's remarks. (a) The author's assertion (Theorem 17) that \(G=\lim_ \leftarrow G_ \alpha\) satisfies L\(\simeq\)R if and only if each \(G_ \alpha\) satisfies L\(\simeq\)R cannot be correct, but this minor slip does not invalidate any of the paper's major contributions. (b) The equivalence for locally compact groups of condition L\(\simeq\)R with (3) above for bounded functions has been given independently by \textit{P. Milnes} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 109, 567-570 (1990; Zbl 0697.22005)].

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