Densities and Weights of Quotients of Precompact Abelian Groups

arXiv2211.06831MaRDI QIDQ6417059FDOQ6417059

Authors: De Kui Peng 

Publication date: 13 November 2022

Abstract: The topological group version of the celebrated Banach-Mazur problem asks wether every infinite topological group has a non-trivial separable quotient group. It is known that compact groups have infinite separable metrizable quotient groups. However, as dense subgroups of compact groups, precompact groups may admit no non-trivial metrizable quotient groups, so also no non-trivial separable quotient groups. In this paper, we study the least cardinal $mathfrakm$ (resp. $mathfrakn$) such that every infinite precompact abelian group admits a quotient group with density character $leqmathfrakm$ (resp. with weight $leqmathfrakn$). It is shown that if $2^{<mathfrakc}=mathfrakc$, then $mathfrakm=mathfrakc$ and $mathfrakn=2^{m}athfrakc$. A more general problem is to describe the set $QW(G)$ of all possible weights of infinite proper quotient groups of a precompact abelian group $G$. We prove that for every subset $E$ of the interval $[omega,mathfrakc]$, there exists a precompact abelian group $G$ with $QW(G)=E$. If $omegainE$, then $G$ can be chosen to be pseudocompact. In an appendix, we give an example to show that a non-totally disconnected locally compact group may admit no separable quotient groups. This answers an open problem posed in cite{LMT}.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of general topological groups (22A05)

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