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Hausdorffness in varieties of topological groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Carolyn E. McPhail
Carolyn E. McPhail
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsUniversity of WollongongWollongong NSW 2522Australia e-mail: caz_mcphail@uow. edu.au
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Abstract

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A variety of topological groups is a class of (not necessarily Hausdorff) topological groups closed under the operations of forming subgroups, quotient groups and arbitrary products. It is well known that the class of groups underlying the topological groups contained in any variety of topological groups is a variety of groups. Much work on topological groups is restricted to Hausdorff topological groups and so it is relevant to know if the class of groups underlying Hausdorff topological groups in is a variety of groups. It is shown that this is not always the case. Indeed it is proved that this is not the case for an important proper class of varieties of topological groups.

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Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 147 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1998

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