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UNIVERSAL SUBGROUPS OF POLISH GROUPS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2014

KONSTANTINOS A. BEROS
KONSTANTINOS A. BEROS*
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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS GENERAL ACADEMICS BUILDING 435 1155 UNION CIRCLE DENTON, TX 76203-5017, USA E-mail:beros@unt.edu
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Abstract

Given a class ${\cal C}$ of subgroups of a topological group G, we say that a subgroup $H \in {\cal C}$ is a universal${\cal C}$subgroup of G if every subgroup $K \in {\cal C}$ is a continuous homomorphic preimage of H. Such subgroups may be regarded as complete members of ${\cal C}$ with respect to a natural preorder on the set of subgroups of G. We show that for any locally compact Polish group G, the countable power Gω has a universal Kσ subgroup and a universal compactly generated subgroup. We prove a weaker version of this in the nonlocally compact case and provide an example showing that this result cannot readily be improved. Additionally, we show that many standard Banach spaces (viewed as additive topological groups) have universal Kσ and compactly generated subgroups. As an aside, we explore the relationship between the classes of Kσ and compactly generated subgroups and give conditions under which the two coincide.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 79 , Issue 4 , December 2014 , pp. 1148 - 1183
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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2014 

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