When a locally compact monothetic semigroup is compact

A semigroup endowed with a topology is monothetic if it contains a dense monogenic subsemigroup. A semigroup (group) endowed with a topology is semitopological (quasitopological) if the translations (the translations and the inversion) are continuous. If S is a nondiscrete monothetic semitopological semigroup, then the set {S^{\prime}} of all limit points of S is a closed ideal of S. Let S be a locally compact nondiscrete monothetic semitopological semigroup. We show that (1) if the translations of {S^{\prime}} are open, then {S^{\prime}} is compact, and (2) if {S^{\prime}} can be topologically and algebraically embedded in a quasitopological group, then {S^{\prime}} is a compact topological group.

A-paracompactness and Strongly A-screenability in Topological Groups

A space is said to be strongly A-screenable if there exists a σ-discrete refinement for each open cover. In this article, we have investigated some of the features of A-paracompact and strongly A-screenable spaces in topological and semi topological groups. We predominantly show that (i) Topological direct product of (countably) A-paracompact topological group and a compact topological group is (countably) A-paracompact topological group. (ii) All the left and right cosets of a strongly A-screenable subset H of a semi topological group (G, ∗, τ ) are strongly A-creenable.

On the Baum–Connes Conjecture for Groups Acting on CAT(0)-Cubical Spaces

We give a new proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture with coefficients for any second countable, locally compact topological group that acts properly and cocompactly on a finite-dimensional CAT(0)-cubical space with bounded geometry. The proof uses the Julg–Valette complex of a CAT(0)-cubical space introduced by the 1st three authors and the direct splitting method in Kasparov theory developed by the last author.

Positive answers to Koch’s problem in special cases

A topological semigroup is monothetic provided it contains a dense cyclic subsemigroup. The Koch problem asks whether every locally compact monothetic monoid is compact. This problem was opened for more than sixty years, till in 2018 Zelenyuk obtained a negative answer. In this paper we obtain a positive answer for Koch’s problem for some special classes of topological monoids. Namely, we show that a locally compact monothetic topological monoid S is a compact topological group if and only if S is a submonoid of a quasitopological group if and only if S has open shifts if and only if S is non-viscous in the sense of Averbukh. The last condition means that any neighborhood U of the identity 1 of S and for any element a ∈ S there exists a neighborhood V of a such that any element x ∈ S with (xV ∪ Vx) ∩ V ≠ ∅ belongs to the neighborhood U of 1.

On topological groups with remainder of character k

<p style="margin: 0px;">In [A.V. Arhangel'skii and J. van Mill, On topological groups with a first-countable remainder, Top. Proc. <span id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1099_com_zimbra_phone" class="Object">42 (2013), 157-163</span>] it is proved that the character of a non-locally compact topological group with a first countable remainder doesn't exceed $\omega_1$ and a non-locally compact topological group of character $\omega_1$ having a compactification whose reminder is first countable is given. We generalize these results in the general case of an arbitrary infinite cardinal k.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p>

Big free groups are almost free

It is shown that the big free group (the set of countably-long words over a countable alphabet) is almost free, in the sense that any function from the alphabet to a compact topological group factors through a homomorphism. This statement is in fact a simple corollary of the more general result proven below on the extendability of homomorphisms from subgroups (of a certain kind) of the big free group to a compact topological group.

NOTES ON -TOPOLOGICAL GROUPS AND HOMEOMORPHISMS OF TOPOLOGICAL GROUPS

In this paper, it is shown that there exists a connected topological group which is not homeomorphic to any $\omega $-narrow topological group, and also that there exists a zero-dimensional topological group $G$ with neutral element $e$ such that the subspace $X = G\setminus \{e\}$ is not homeomorphic to any topological group. These two results give negative answers to two open problems in Arhangel’skii and Tkachenko [Topological Groups and Related Structures (Atlantis Press, Amsterdam, 2008)]. We show that if a compact topological group is a $K$-space, then it is metrisable. This result gives an affirmative answer to a question posed by Malykhin and Tironi [‘Weakly Fréchet–Urysohn and Pytkeev spaces’, Topology Appl. 104 (2000), 181–190] in the category of topological groups. We also prove that a regular $K$-space $X$ is a weakly Fréchet–Urysohn space if and only if $X$has countable tightness.

CONTINUITY OF MEASURABLE HOMOMORPHISMS

We give some general results concerning continuity of measurable homomorphisms of topological groups. As a consequence we show that a Christensen measurable homomorphism of a Polish abelian group into a locally compact topological group is continuous. We also obtain similar results for the universally measurable homomorphisms and the homomorphisms that have the Baire property.