Subgroups of monothetic groups

DOI10.1515/JGTH.2000.032MaRDI QIDQ4522194zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sidney A. Morris, Vladimir G. Pestov

Publication date 16 May 2001

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9907128

zbMATH Keywords

dense cyclic subgroupsfree Abelian topological groupsfree locally convex spacesinvariant pseudometricsmonothetic groupsseparable Banach spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of general topological groups (22A05)

Abstract: It is shown that every separable abelian topological group is isomorphic with a topological subgroup of a monothetic group (that is, a topological group with a single topological generator). In particular, every separable metrizable abelian group embeds into a metrizable monothetic group. More generally, we describe all topological groups that can be embedded into monothetic groups: they are exactly abelian topological groups of weight $leqfrakc$ covered by countably many translations of every nonempty open subset.

Review text

It is shown that every separable Abelian topological group embeds into a monothetic group. As a corollary, subgroups of monothetic groups are exactly those that are Abelian, \(\aleph_0\)-bounded (i.e., each neighborhood has countably many translates that cover the whole group), and of weight at most the cardinality of the continuum. Every separable metrizable Abelian group is shown to be a subgroup of a completely metrizable monothetic group. In particular, all additive groups of separable Banach spaces are covered by this. The proofs use invariant pseudometrics, free Abelian topological groups, and their embeddings in free locally convex spaces to show: every countable topological group is a quotient of a subgroup of a separable locally convex space whose topology admits a separable metrizable locally convex topology. Finally, it has to be noted that the class of subgroups of monothetic groups is closed under passing to subgroups, quotients, and completions.

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