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Is $L^2(I,\mathbb Z)$ homeomorphic to the Hilbert space?
I am somehow puzzled by the subset $G:=L^2(I,\mathbb Z)$ of $H:=L^2(I,\mathbb R)$ of all integer valued functions on $I=[0,1]$ (in fact I mentioned as an example in this old MO question).
Some simple ...
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Idempotent conjecture and (weak) connectivity of (a reasonable) dual group
What is an example of a torsion free discrete abelian group $G$ whose dual space $\hat{G}$ is not a path connected space?
The Motivation: The motivation comes from the idempotent conjecture of ...
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Parametrization of topological algebraic objects
There are several results of the following form: if an algebraic objects is endowed with a topology (or rather uniformity) which is somehow compatible with the algebraic structure, this uniformity is ...
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$T_1$ paratopological group having a dense commutative subgroup is commutative
I'm learning about topological groups from Arhangelskii and Tkachenko "Topological groups and related structures" and this is one of the exercises there.
A paratopological group is a group ...
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Discreteness of $D^{-1}D$ given that $D$ is uniformly discrete
Let $G$ be a topological group with unit element $e$.
We say that $D\subseteq G$ is discrete if for all $x\in D$ there is a unit-neighborhood $U\subseteq G$ such that $x^{-1}D\cap U=\{e\}$. We say ...
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Extreme amenability of topological groups and invariant means
Recently I'm reading the paper Ramsey–Milman phenomenon, Urysohn metric spaces, and extremely amenable groups by Pestov. When it comes to the definition of an extremely amenable topological group, it ...
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Is every contractible homogeneous space of a connected Lie group homeomorphic to a Euclidean space?
Problem. Let $G$ be a connected Lie group and $H$ is a closed subgroup of $G$ such that the homogeneous space $G/H$ is contractible. Is $G/H$ homeomorphic to a Euclidean space $\mathbb R^n$ for some $...
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Neighborhoods of idempotents in topological inverse semigroups
In a topological group, for any neighborhood $U$ of the origin, there is another such neighborhood with the property that $V.V\subseteq U.$ I conjecture a similar property for topological inverse ...
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Classification of closures of additive subgroups of $\mathbb{R}^n$
If $G$ is an additive subgroup of the real numbers $\mathbb{R}$ and $\overline{G}$ is the topological closure of $G$ then either
$\overline{G} = a \cdot \mathbb{Z}$ for some $a \in \mathbb{R}$, or
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G separable group, $\aleph_0 \leq \tau$. What is $l(X)$ and $\omega l(X) (\leq \tau)$? where $X \subseteq G$. And what is $\chi (G)$ (cardinal)?
Happy Chinese new year!
I was reading (and translating) a Russian article "On the topological groups close to being Lindelöf".
Where it is assumed G is a separable group and $\tau \geq \...
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Where can I learn more about the topology on $\mathbb{R}$ induced by the map $\mathbb{R} \to \prod_{a>0} (\mathbb{R}/a\mathbb{Z})$?
Consider the (continuous, injective, abelian group homomorphism) map $\Phi \colon \mathbb{R} \to \prod_{a>0} (\mathbb{R}/a\mathbb{Z})$ (where the target is given the product topology) taking $x\in \...
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Stone–Čech compactification as a semigroup
Let $G$ be a topological group (we can assume that $G$ is countable and discrete) and let $\beta(G)$ be the Stone–Čech compactification of $G$. It is known that $\beta(G)$ can be turned into a left ...
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Steinhaus number of a group
$\newcommand\Sn{\mathit{Sn}}$A subset $A$ of a group $X$ is called algebraic if $A=\{x\in X: a_0xa_1x\dotsm xa_n=1\}$ for some elements $a_0,a_1,\dotsc,a_n\in X$.
Let $\mathcal A_X$ be the family of ...
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Morphism in commutative square strict?
Let $G,H$ be topological groups and $f:G\rightarrow H$ a continuous group homomorphism.
Then $f$ is said to be strict if $G/\mathrm{Ker}(f) \cong \mathrm{Im}(f)$ is an isomorphism of topological ...
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Compactness of the minimal ideal of a compact Hausdorff polytopological semigroup
A semigroup $X$ endowed with a topology is called
$\bullet$ a topological semigroup if the semigroup operation $X\times X\to X$ is continuous;
$\bullet$ a semitopological semigroup if for every $a,b\...
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Structure of a profinite group as a condensed set with an action of an open subgroup
Let $G$ be a profinite group and $H$ be an open subgroup. As a continuous $H$-topological space, we have $G=\coprod_{G/H} H$. Does this also hold as condensed sets, i.e. do we have an identification ...
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What are all of the topological (commutative) monoid structures on a closed interval?
Consider a closed real interval $[a,b]$ as a toplogical space. Up to homeomeorphism it doesn't matter, but I like to take $[a,b] = [0,\infty]$.
Question 1: What are all of the topological commutative ...
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Initial topology for a topological ring
Given a topological ring $R$ and an arbitrary (thus not necessarily surjective) epimorphism $q: R \to S$ of underlying rings is there a finest topology on $S$ such that 1) $S$ is a topological ring ...
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Approximations by compact sub-spaces
Suppose $X$ is a Hausdorff (I'm happy to also assume "non compact") topological space that can be written as the topological direct limit
$$\varinjlim_{a\in J} K_a$$
for $J$ a directed set ...
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Is there a natural topology on the automorphism group of a topological group?
$\DeclareMathOperator\TAut{TAut}\DeclareMathOperator\Homeo{Homeo}$Let $G$ be a topological group, and let $\TAut(G)$ denote the group of topological automorphisms of $G$ under composition (i.e. the ...
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Is $(\mathbb{Z}_p\times \mathbb{R})/\mathbb{Z}$ connected?
I was reading this question The connected component of the idele class group but I am very confused about the structure of the solenoids $(\widehat{\mathbb{Z}}\times\mathbb{R})/\mathbb{Z}$, (where $\...
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What is the smallest $\sigma$-algebra of reals that is closed under addition of sets?
What is the smallest $\sigma$-algebra $\Sigma\subseteq\mathcal P(\Bbb R)$ containing the open sets and such that if $A,B\in\Sigma$, then $$A+B=\{a+b\mid a\in A,b\in B\}\in\Sigma?$$
I know that neither ...
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Topological group locally homeomorphic to the Hilbert cube
Does there exist a topological group which is locally homeomorphic to the Hilbert cube $[0,1]^{\mathbb N}$?
Let me note that Hilbert cube has the fixed point property and thus it is not homeomorphic ...
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Is second countability an extension property for non-Hausdorff spaces?
Let $G$ be an abelian topological group and let $H$ be a non-Hausdorff closed subgroup (so that $G/H$ is Hausdorff). If $H$ and $G/H$ are second countable, is $G$ second countable?
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Can the Boolean group $C_2^\omega$ be covered by less than $\mathfrak b$ nowhere dense subgroups?
Let $\mathrm{cov}_H(C_2^\omega)$ be the smallest cardinality of a cover of the Boolean group $C_2^\omega=(\mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z)^\omega$ by closed subgroups of infinite index. It can be shown that
$$\...
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Intersection of all open subgroups vs. the intersection of all open normal subgroups
I am interested to know examples of topological groups $G$ for which the intersection $\bigcap\{H\leq G\mid H\text{ open}\}$ of all open subgroups of $G$ is the trivial subgroup but for which the ...
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Why are free Boolean topological groups Hausdorff?
Assume $X$ is a Tychonoff space. Then $A(X)$ is the free topological abelian group over $X$. I know that $A(X)$ is Hausdorff and the canonical embedding from $X$ to $A(X)$ is a topological embedding.
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How complex is the orbit equivalence relation of $\mathrm{Iso}_0(X)\curvearrowright S_X$ for $X=L^p([0,1])$?
For a Banach space $X$ let $S_X$ denote its unit sphere and let $\mathrm{Iso}_0(X)$ denote the group of rotations of $X$, that is isometries fixing the origin. There is a natural continuous action $\...
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Left-side cosets of an open subgroup
Let $G$ be a topological group and $H$ its closed subgroup. $K$ and $L$ are open subgroups of $G$ and $H$ respectively. Let $g_{1}, g_{2}\in G$. We assume $L\cap g_{1}K\neq \emptyset$ and $L\cap g_{2}...
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Metric completion of an algebraically closed field is algebraically closed?
Let $F$ be a complete metric topological field. Suppose there is a subfield $F_1 \subset F$, algebraically closed and topoolgically dense in $F$. Must $F$ itself be algebraically closed?
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Do Locally Contractible, Path-Connected Groups have Accessible Bases?
Suppose $G$ is a locally contractible, metric, path-connected topological group. In my particular case, $G$ will be the group of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the plane, denoted $Aut(\...
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Countable sum $\bigoplus_{n=0}^\infty\mathbb Z_p$ as a topological group
$\DeclareMathOperator\colim{colim}$This is inspired by Clausen's answer.
Question: Recall that $\mathbb Z_p$ is endowed with the $p$-adic topology. Consider the countable sum $M:=\bigoplus_{n=0}^\...
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CH and the density topology on $\mathbb{R}$
In the article AN EXAMPLE INVOLVING BAIRE SPACES (https://www.ams.org/journals/proc/1975-048-01/S0002-9939-1975-0362249-1/S0002-9939-1975-0362249-1.pdf) of H. E. White Jr. it is shown that, assuming ...
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About locally compact groups without compact subgroups
Is every Hausdorff, locally compact group that does not contain any non-trivial compact group, finitely dimensional?
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Are locally compact, Hausdorff, locally path-connected topological groups locally Euclidean?
Is every locally compact, Hausdorff, locally path-connected topological group $G$ locally Euclidean? (That would imply of course also being a Lie group.) Is it true when countable basis is assumed? I ...
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The Tychonov cube $X^X$ of a compact space $X$ is a compact semigroup with the composition operation
Reading a book about Ramsey theory this is the first example of a compact (semitopological) semigroup, which is a nonempty semigroup S with compact Hausdorff topology for which $x \mapsto x*s$ is a
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What is the smallest number of nowhere dense affine subsets covering a topological group?
$\DeclareMathOperator\cov{cov}\newcommand\A{\text A}$A subset $A$ of a group $G$ is called affine if $A=xHy$ for some subgroup $H\subseteq G$ and some $x,y\in G$.
Given a non-discrete topological ...
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Two cardinal characteristics of the continuum, related to the Bohr topology on integers
For a subset $A\subseteq\mathbb T$ of the unit circle $\mathbb T=\{z\in\mathbb C:|z|=1\}$, let $\tau_A$ be the smallest topology on the additive group of integers $\mathbb Z$ such that for every $z\in ...
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Complete topological groups in which all subgroups are closed
My previous question has been answered by YCor; so I am asking a new one with a reasonable additional assumption. See the previous question for the background and motivation.
General question: does ...
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Topological groups in which all subgroups are closed
General question: does there exist a nondiscrete topological group $G$ such that all subgroups of $G$ are closed? Or, does there exist a nondiscrete topological vector space $V$ such that all vector ...
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Sufficent condition for strict morphism of normed vector spaces
Let $K$ be a non-archimedean field of char 0 and a morphism $f:V \rightarrow W$ of normed $K$-vector spaces given. The map $f$ is said to be strict if $V/\ker(f)$ with the quotient topology is ...
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Group of surface homeomorphisms is locally path-connected
I think the following is true and I need a reference for the proof. (Given a closed surface $S$, i.e. a compact 2-dimensional topological manifold (without boundary), we endow $S$ with a distance ...
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Local cross-sections for free actions of finite groups
Let $G$ be a finite group, let $X$ be a locally compact Hausdorff space, and let $G$ act freely on $X$. It is well-known that the canonical quotient map $\pi\colon X\to X/G$ onto the orbit space $X/G$ ...
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About Countable Dense Homogeneous spaces (CDH) and strongly locally homogeneous spaces
I am new to the study of CDH topological spaces, I wanted to study basic examples of this type of spaces, for example I could understand the demonstration that $\mathbb{R}$ is CDH, using the Cantor ...
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Does the compact-open topology retain topological groups?
Let $X$ be a topological space and $Y$ a topological group. Then $C(X,Y)$ is a group, and can also be endowed with the compact-open topology.
Is $C(X,Y)$ in the compact-open topology necessarily a ...
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Continuous surjection from $X(D_n)$ onto $\operatorname{Homeo}_0(D_n)$
Let $n>1$ and let $\mathfrak{X}(D_n)$ denote the set of continuous vector fields on the closed disc $D_n\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$. Let $\operatorname{Homeo}_0(D_n)$ be the set of homeomorphism of ...
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Reference request: placing a set with respect to the integer grid
For $x=(x_1,...,x_n)\in \mathbb{R}^n$, let $Q_x=(x_1,x_1+1)\times ...\times (x_n,x_n+1)$ - the open cube having $x$ in its "bottom left" corner. It seems, I can prove (see a draft here) the following
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Is there an orbit map without path lifting property?
I am looking for an example of a topological group $G$ acting by homeomorphisms on a metrizable space $X$ such that the orbit map $X\to X/G$ doesn't have the path lifting property, that is, there is a ...
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Does the self-homeomorphism group of a finite CW complex have CW homotopy type?
Let $X$ be a finite CW complex and form the group $\mathcal{H}(X)$ of self-homeomorphisms $X\xrightarrow{\cong}X$, furnishing it with the compact-open topology. Under the assumptions on our space $\...
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Is there a compact, connected, totally path-disconnected topological group?
There exist homogeneous spaces such as the pseudo-arc, which are compact, connected, and totally path-disconnected. Is there a nontrivial, Hausdorff topological group with the same properties, i.e. ...
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