The weights of closed subgroups of a locally compact group

Abstract: Let

G

be an infinite locally compact group and

a l e p h

a cardinal satisfying

a l e p h_{0} l e a l e p h l e w (G)

for the weight

w (G)

of

G

. It is shown that there is a closed subgroup

N

of

G

with

w (N) = a l e p h

. Sample consequences are: (1) Every infinite compact group contains an infinite closed metric subgroup. (2) For a locally compact group

G

and

a l e p h

a cardinal satisfying

a l e p h_{0} l e a l e p h l e l w (G)

, where

l w (G)

is the local weight of

G

, there are either no infinite compact subgroups at all or there is a compact subgroup

N

of

G

with

w (N) = a l e p h

. (3) For an infinite abelian group

G

there exists a properly ascending family of locally quasiconvex group topologies on

G

, say,

(a u_{a} l e p h)_{a l e p h_{0} l e a l e p h l e c a r d (G)}

, such that

(G, a u_{a} l e p h) h a t p h a n t o m m c o n g h a t G

. Items (2) and (3) are shown in Section 5.

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