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Local compactness in free topological groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Peter Nickolas  and
Mikhail Tkachenko
Peter Nickolas
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia, e-mail: peter_nickolas@uow.edu.au
Mikhail Tkachenko
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Av. San Rafael Atlixco # 186, Col. Vicentina, C.P. 09340, Iztapalapa, Mexico, D.F., e-mail: mich@xanum.uam.mx
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We show that the subspace An(X) of the free Abelian topological group A(X) on a Tychonoff space X is locally compact for each n ∈ ω if and only if A2(X) is locally compact if an only if F2(X) is locally compact if and only if X is the topological sum of a compact space and a discrete space. It is also proved that the subspace Fn(X) of the free topological group F(X) is locally compact for each n ∈ ω if and only if F4(X) is locally compact if and only if Fn(X) has pointwise countable type for each n ∈ ω if and only if F4(X) has pointwise countable type if and only if X is either compact or discrete, thus refining a result by Pestov and Yamada. We further show that An(X) has pointwise countable type for each n ∈ ω if and only if A2(X) has pointwise countable type if and only if F2(X) has pointwise countable type if and only if there exists a compact set C of countable character in X such that the complement X \ C is discrete. Finally, we show that F2(X) is locally compact if and only if F3(X) is locally compact, and that F2(X) has pointwise countable type if and only if F3(X) has pointwise countable type.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , October 2003 , pp. 243 - 265
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2003

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