Free Quasitopological Groups

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2023.108416arXiv2108.09553MaRDI QIDQ6375740FDOQ6375740

Authors: Jeremy Thomas Brazas, Sarah Emery 

Publication date: 21 August 2021

Abstract: In this paper, we study the topological structure of a universal construction related to quasitopological groups: the free quasitopological group $F_q(X)$ on a space $X$. We show that free quasitopological groups may be constructed directly as quotient spaces of free semitopological monoids, which are themselves constructed by iterating product spaces equipped with the "cross topology." Using this explicit description of $F_q(X)$, we show that for any $T_1$ space $X$, $F_q(X)$ is the direct limit of closed subspaces $F_q(X{)}_n$ of words of length at most $n$. We also prove that the natural map $$ is quotient for all $ngeq0$. Equipped with this convenient characterization of the topology of free quasitopological groups, we show, among other things, that a subspace $YsubseteqX$ is closed if and only if the inclusion $YoX$ induces a closed embedding $F_q(Y)o{F}_q(X)$ of free quasitopological groups.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of general topological groups (22A05) Topological groups (topological aspects) (54H11) Structure of topological semigroups (22A15) Quotient spaces, decompositions in general topology (54B15) Moore spaces (54E30)

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