Groups without convergent sequences
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Groups without convergent sequences
zbMATH Open document ID: 0867.22001
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-8641(96)00061-2
author: Jan J. Dijkstra
author: Jan van Mill
published in: Topology and its Applications
publication date: 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
review text: The aim of the paper is to describe the compact abelian topological groups that contain a dense (pseudocompact) subgroup without nontrivial convergent sequences. It is shown, for example, that if \(G\) is a precompact abelian topological group such that for some integer \(m\) the subgroup \(mG\) of \(G\) is infinite and \(w(mG) =\kappa\) is a strong limit cardinal, then every dense subgroup of \(G\) has convergent sequences of length \(cf(\kappa)\). By a result of Sirota, the group \(\mathbb{Z} (2)^\kappa\) has a dense pseudocompact subgroup without nontrivial convergent sequences for every \(\kappa>1\) satisfying \(\kappa^\omega= \kappa\). The authors generalize this result to products of compact groups of a given order \(n\) and weight \(\leq\lambda\) and present an example of a compact metric group no power of which has a dense subgroup without non-trivial convergent sequences. Finally, the authors make use of \(G\subset H\) to characterize compact abelian torsion groups every dense subgroup of which contains convergent sequences.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 22A10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54H11
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 54C45
zbMATH DE Number: 987930
zbMATH Keywords: compact abelian topological groups
zbMATH Keywords: precompact abelian topological group
zbMATH Keywords: pseudocompact subgroup
zbMATH Keywords: torsion groups
zbMATH Keywords: convergent sequences
reviewed by: Mikhail Tkachenko
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 987930