The character of topological groups, via bounded systems, Pontryagin-van Kampen duality and pcf theory
From MaRDI portal
(Redirected from Publication:743906)
dual groupcompact-open topologyfree topological groupmetrizable grouppcf theorylocally quasi-convex groupcofinalitybounded setscharacter of a topological groupPontryagin-van Kampen duality
Structure of general topological groups (22A05) Topological groups (topological aspects) (54H11) Consistency and independence results (03E35) Character groups and dual objects (43A40) Cardinality properties (cardinal functions and inequalities, discrete subsets) (54A25) Cardinal characteristics of the continuum (03E17) Ordered sets and their cofinalities; pcf theory (03E04) Applications of set theory (03E75) General properties and structure of LCA groups (22B05) Duality theorems for locally compact groups (22D35)
Abstract: The Birkhoff--Kakutani Theorem asserts that a topological group is metrizable if and only if it has countable character. We develop and apply tools for the estimation of the character for a wide class of nonmetrizable topological groups. We consider abelian groups whose topology is determined by a countable cofinal family of compact sets. These are the closed subgroups of Pontryagin--van Kampen duals of emph{metrizable} abelian groups, or equivalently, complete abelian groups whose dual is metrizable. By investigating these connections, we show that also in these cases, the character can be estimated, and that it is determined by the weights of the emph{compact} subsets of the group, or of quotients of the group by compact subgroups. It follows, for example, that the density and the local density of an abelian metrizable group determine the character of its dual group. Our main result applies to the more general case of closed subgroups of Pontryagin--van Kampen duals of abelian v{C}ech-complete groups. In the special case of free abelian topological groups, our results extend a number of results of Nickolas and Tkachenko, which were proved using combinatorial methods. In order to obtain concrete estimations, we establish a natural bridge between the studied concepts and pcf theory, that allows the direct application of several major results from that theory. We include an introduction to these results and their use.
Recommendations
- Topological groups and the Pontryagin-van Kampen duality. An introduction
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 195025
- Group topologies on vector spaces and character lifting properties
- Continuous and Pontryagin duality of topological groups
- Free Abelian topological groups and the Pontryagin-Van Kampen duality
- The role of real characters in the Pontryagin duality of topological Abelian groups
- Computable topological groups and Pontryagin duality
- Topological groups and \(P^-_{\kappa ^+}\)-points
- Final group topologies, Kac-Moody groups and Pontryagin duality
Cites work
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3869258 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3581219 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 734993 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1455217 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3894002 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3214305 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3068567 (Why is no real title available?)
- Additive subgroups of topological vector spaces
- Advances in Cardinal Arithmetic
- Bounded Sets in (F)-Spaces
- Bounded sets in topological vector spaces
- Cardinal Arithmetic
- Combinatorial Cardinal Characteristics of the Continuum
- Embeddings of bornological universes
- Final group topologies, Kac-Moody groups and Pontryagin duality
- Free Abelian topological groups and the Pontryagin-Van Kampen duality
- Group duality with the topology of precompact convergence
- Minimal size of basic families
- Necessary and sufficient conditions for precompact sets to be metrisable
- On the consistency strength of the Milner-Sauer conjecture
- Optimal Cardinals for Metrizable Barrelled Spaces
- Pontryagin duality for metrizable groups
- Pontryagin-van Kampen reflexivity for free Abelian topological groups
- Some covering properties for \(\Psi\)-spaces
- The Lie theory of connected pro-Lie groups. A structure theory for pro-Lie algebras, pro-Lie groups, and connected locally compact groups
- The character of free topological groups I
- The character of free topological groups II
- The negation of the singular cardinal hypothesis from \(o(\kappa)=\kappa ^{++}\)
- The strength of the failure of the singular cardinal hypothesis
- Topological groups and related structures
Cited in
(10)- Combinatorial aspects of selective star covering properties in \(\Psi\)-spaces
- Countable tightness and \({\mathfrak{G}} \)-bases on free topological groups
- \(\omega^\omega\)-dominated function spaces and \(\omega^{\omega}\)-bases in free objects of topological algebra
- Minimal size of basic families
- Star versions of the Menger property
- A classification of the cofinal structures of precompacta
- Free locally convex spaces with a small base
- Some star and strongly star selection principles
- The weight and \(i\)-weight of Lindelöf \(P\)-groups
- Products of topological groups and \(\omega\)-stability
This page was built for publication: The character of topological groups, via bounded systems, Pontryagin-van Kampen duality and pcf theory
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q743906)
