Free Quasitopological Groups

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2023.108416MaRDI QIDQ6375740arXivFDO

Authors Jeremy Thomas Brazas, Sarah Emery

Publication date 21 August 2021

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)

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.

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