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An example of a polish group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Maciej Malicki*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mathematics, 1409 W.Green ST, IL 61801. USA, E-mail: mamalicki@gmail.com

Abstract

We construct a non-discrete Polish group none of whose non-discrete subgroups admits a complete left-invariant metric.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2008

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