Quasi-convex density and determining subgroups of compact abelian groups

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2008-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/0807.3846v3

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 363 (2010), 42-48

Mathematics

General Topology

11 pages. The proof of Lemma 3.6 (from version 2) has been significantly simplified and shorten. 2 lemmas and 4 references hav

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.jmaa.2009.07.038

For an abelian topological group G let G^* denote the dual group of all continuous characters endowed with the compact open topology. Given a closed subset X of an infinite compact abelian group G such that w(X) < w(G) and an open neighbourhood U of 0 in the circle group, we show that the set of all characters which send X into U has the same size as G^*. (Here, w(G) denotes the weight of G.) A subgroup D of G determines G if the restriction homomorphism G^* --> D^* is an isomorphism between G^* and D^*. We prove that w(G) = min {|D|: D is a subgroup of G that determines G} for every infinite compact abelian group G. In particular, an infinite compact abelian group determined by a countable subgroup is metrizable. This gives a negative answer to questions of Comfort, Hernandez, Macario, Raczkowski and Trigos-Arrieta. As an application, we furnish a short elementary proof of the result from [13] that a compact abelian group G is metrizable provided that every dense subgroup of G determines G.

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