Locally minimal topological groups 2

We continue in this paper the study of locally minimal groups started in Außenhofer et al. (2010) [4]. The minimality criterion for dense subgroups of compact groups is extended to local minimality. Using this criterion we characterize the compact abelian groups containing dense countable locally minimal subgroups, as well as those containing dense locally minimal subgroups of countable free-rank. We also characterize the compact abelian groups whose torsion part is dense and locally minimal. We call a topological group G almost minimal if it has a closed, minimal normal subgroup N such that the quotient group G/N is uniformly free from small subgroups. The class of almost minimal groups includes all locally compact groups, and is contained in the class of locally minimal groups. On the other hand, we provide examples of countable precompact metrizable locally minimal groups which are not almost minimal. Some other significant properties of this new class are obtained.     

On the Countable Tightness of Product Spaces

In this paper, we discuss the countable tightness of products of spaces which are quotient simages of locally separable metric spaces, or k-spaces with a star-countable k-network. The main result is that the following conditions are equivalent： （1） b = ω1; （2） t（Sω×Sω1） 〉 ω; （3） For any pair （X, Y）, which are k-spaces with a point-countable k-network consisting of cosmic subspaces, t（X×Y）≤ω if and only if one of X, Y is first countable or both X, Y are locally cosmic spaces. Many results on the k-space property of products of spaces with certain k-networks could be deduced from the above theorem.     

Extension of locally pseudocompact group actions

It is shown that: (1) any action of a Moscow group G on a first countable, Dieudonné complete (in particular, on a metrizable) space X can uniquely be extended to an action of the Dieudonné completion γG on X, (2) any action of a locally pseudocompact topological group G on a b _f -space (in particular, on a first countable space) X can uniquely be extended to an action of the Weil completion on the Dieudonné completion γX of X. As a consequence, we obtain that, for each locally pseudocompact topological group G, every G-space with the b _f -property admits an equivariant embedding into a compact Hausdorff G-space. Furthermore, for each pseudocompact group G, every metrizable G-space has a G-invariant metric compatible with its topology. We also give a direct construction of such an invariant metric. Received: June 22, 2000; in final form: May 22, 2001?Published online: June 11, 2002     

Characterizing subgroups of compact abelian groups

We prove that every countable subgroup of a compact metrizable abelian group has a characterizing set. As an application, we answer several questions on maximally almost periodic (MAP) groups and give a characterization of the class of (necessarily MAP) abelian topological groups whose Bohr topology has countable pseudocharacter.     

Note on elongations of totally projective p-groups by p ω+n -projective p-groups

It is proved that any Σ-group, which is a special elongation of a totally projective abelian p-group by a p ^ω+1-projective abelian p-group, is totally projective. In particular, each p ^ω+1-projective abelian Σ-p-group is a direct sum of countable p-groups of lengths not exceeding ω + 1. This strengthens our recent result published in Comment. Math. Univ. St. Pauli (2006). Published in Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 180–185, April–June, 2006.     

Continuous Duality of Limits and Colimits of Topological Abelian Groups

In the category Cgp of convergence groups, the continuous dual Γ _c ( ·) is a left adjoint and takes colimits to limits in Cgp. In general, limits are not taken to colimits. In this paper we show that, if we restrict ourselves to limits of topological groups, then reduced projective limits are carried to inductive limits in Cgp. As a consequence of this we show that the inductive limit in Cgp of locally compact topological groups is reflexive if it is separated.      

Covering properties which,under weak diamond principles,constrain the extents of separable spaces

We show that separable, locally compact spaces with property (a) necessarily have countable extent — i.e., have no uncountable closed, discrete subspaces — if the effective weak diamond principle ⋄(ω,ω,<) holds. If the stronger, non-effective, diamond principle Φ(ω,ω,<) holds then separable, countably paracompact spaces also have countable extent. We also give a short proof that the latter principle implies there are no small dominating families in ^ω ₁ ω.     

Primary abelian <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>-Σ-groups

We prove the following theorem: Any abelian p-group is an n-Σ-group which is a strong ω-elongation of a totally projective group by a p ^ω+n -projective group precisely when it is totally projective. In particular, each p-torsion p ^ω+n -projective n-Σ-group is a direct sum of countable p-groups of length not exceeding ω + n and vice versa. These two claims generalize our recent results in [6] and [7]. Published in Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 155–162, April–June, 2007.     

Almost isometric embedding between metric spaces

We investigate the relations ofalmost isometric embedding and ofalmost isometry between metric spaces. These relations have several appealing features. For example, all isomorphism types of countable dense subsets of ∝ form exactly one almostisometry class, and similarly with countable dense subsets of Uryson's universal separable metric spaceU. We investigate geometric, set-theoretic and model-theoretic aspects of almost isometry and of almost isometric embedding. The main results show that almost isometric embeddability behaves in the category ofseparable metric spaces differently than in the category of general metric spaces. While in the category of general metric spaces the behavior of universality resembles that in the category of linear orderings —namely, no universal structure can exist on a regular λ > ℵ₁ below the continuum—in the category of separable metric spaces universality behaves more like that in the category of graphs, that is, a small number of metric separable metric spaces on an uncountable regular λ<2^ℵ ₀ may consistently almost isometrically embed all separable metric spaces on λ. Research of the first author was supported by an Israeli Science foundation grant no. 177/01. Research of the second author was supported by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation. Publication 827.     

Random ergodic theorems and real cocycles

We study mean convergence of ergodic averages associated to a measure-preserving transformation or flow τ along the random sequence of times κ _n (ω) given by the Birkhoff sums of a measurable functionF for an ergodic measure-preserving transformationT. We prove that the sequence (k _n(ω)) is almost surely universally good for the mean ergodic theorem, i.e., that, for almost every, ω, the averages (*) converge for every choice of τ, if and only if the “cocycle”F satisfies a cohomological condition, equivalent to saying that the eigenvalue group of the “associated flow” ofF is countable. We show that this condition holds in many natural situations. When no assumption is made onF, the random sequence (k _n(ω)) is almost surely universally good for the mean ergodic theorem on the class of mildly mixing transformations τ. However, for any aperiodic transformationT, we are able to construct an integrable functionF for which the sequence (k _n(ω)) is not almost surely universally good for the class of weakly mixing transformations.     

First countability, tightness, and other cardinal invariants in remainders of topological groups

We consider the following natural questions: when a topological group G has a first countable remainder, when G has a remainder of countable tightness? This leads to some further questions on the properties of remainders of topological groups. Let G be a topological group. The following facts are established. 1. If Gω has a first countable remainder, then either G is metrizable, or G is locally compact. 2. If G has a countable network and a first countable remainder, then either G is separable and metrizable, or G is σ-compact. 3. Under (MA+¬CH) every topological group with a countable network and a first countable remainder is separable and metrizable. Some new open problems are formulated.     

Oligomorphic clones

A permutation group on a countably infinite domain is called oligomorphic if it has finitely many orbits of finitary tuples. We define a clone on a countable domain to be oligomorphic if its set of permutations forms an oligomorphic permutation group. There is a close relationship to ω-categorical structures, i.e., countably infinite structures with a first-order theory that has only one countable model, up to isomorphism. Every locally closed oligomorphic permutation group is the automorphism group of an ω-categorical structure, and conversely, the canonical structure of an oligomorphic permutation group is an ω-categorical structure that contains all first-order definable relations. There is a similar Galois connection between locally closed oligomorphic clones and ω-categorical structures containing all primitive positive definable relations. In this article we generalise some fundamental theorems of universal algebra from clones over a finite domain to oligomorphic clones. First, we define minimal oligomorphic clones, and present equivalent characterisations of minimality, and then generalise Rosenberg’s five types classification to minimal oligomorphic clones. We also present a generalisation of the theorem of Baker and Pixley to oligomorphic clones. Presented by A. Szendrei. Received July 12, 2005; accepted in final form August 29, 2006.     

Definability of closure operations in the <Emphasis Type="Italic">h</Emphasis>-quasiorder of labeled forests

We prove that natural closure operations on quotient structures of the h-quasiorder of finite and (at most) countable k-labeled forests (k ≥ 3) are definable provided that minimal nonsmallest elements are allowed as parameters. This strengthens our previous result which holds that each element of the h-quasiorder of finite k-labeled forests is definable in the first-order language, and each element of the h-quasiorder of (at most) countable k-labeled forests is definable in the language L _ω1ω; in both cases k ≥ 3 and minimal nonsmallest elements are allowed as parameters. Similar results hold true for two other relevant structures: the h-quasiorder of finite (resp. countable) k-labeled trees and k-labeled trees with a fixed label on the root element.     

The size of epimorphic extensions

A sharp bound is given for the size of epimorphic extensions in categories of models defined over elementary logic andL _κκ where κ is strongly compact. For fragments ofL _ω1ω an example is given of a category which has a countable model with epimorphic extensions whose cardinalities approach and include the first measurable cardinal. If no measurable cardinal exists then this category has a countable model with epimorphic extensions of unbounded cardinality. This work was supported in part by the National Research Council of Canada under grant numbers A8599, A5603 and A8190. Presented by J. D. Monk.     

Locally minimal topological groups 1

The aim of this paper is to go deeper into the study of local minimality and its connection to some naturally related properties. A Hausdorff topological group (G,τ) is called locally minimal if there exists a neighborhood U of 0 in τ such that U fails to be a neighborhood of zero in any Hausdorff group topology on G which is strictly coarser than τ. Examples of locally minimal groups are all subgroups of Banach-Lie groups, all locally compact groups and all minimal groups. Motivated by the fact that locally compact NSS groups are Lie groups, we study the connection between local minimality and the NSS property, establishing that under certain conditions, locally minimal NSS groups are metrizable. A symmetric subset of an abelian group containing zero is said to be a GTG set if it generates a group topology in an analogous way as convex and symmetric subsets are unit balls for pseudonorms on a vector space. We consider topological groups which have a neighborhood basis at zero consisting of GTG sets. Examples of these locally GTG groups are: locally pseudoconvex spaces, groups uniformly free from small subgroups (UFSS groups) and locally compact abelian groups. The precise relation between these classes of groups is obtained: a topological abelian group is UFSS if and only if it is locally minimal, locally GTG and NSS. We develop a universal construction of GTG sets in arbitrary non-discrete metric abelian groups, that generates a strictly finer non-discrete UFSS topology and we characterize the metrizable abelian groups admitting a strictly finer non-discrete UFSS group topology. Unlike the minimal topologies, the locally minimal ones are always available on “large” groups. To support this line, we prove that a bounded abelian group G admits a non-discrete locally minimal and locally GTG group topology iff |G|?c.     

On Two Questions About Topological (and Nonstandard) Extensions

We construct, under MA, a non-Hausdorff (T₁-)topological extension ^*ω of ω, such that every function from ω to ω extends uniquely to a continuous function from ^*ω to ^*ω. We also show (in ZFC) that for every nontrivial topological extension ^*X of a countable set X there exists a topology τ_f on ^*X, strictly finer than the Star topology, and such that (^*X, τ_f) is still a topological extension of X with the same function extensions ^*f. This solves two questions raised by M. Di Nasso and M. Forti.     

On Two Questions About Topological (and Nonstandard) Extensions

We construct, under MA, a non-Hausdorff (T₁-)topological extension ^*ω of ω, such that every function from ω to ω extends uniquely to a continuous function from ^*ω to ^*ω. We also show (in ZFC) that for every nontrivial topological extension ^*X of a countable set X there exists a topology τ_f on ^*X, strictly finer than the Star topology, and such that (^*X, τ_f) is still a topological extension of X with the same function extensions ^*f. This solves two questions raised by M. Di Nasso and M. Forti.     

n-Summable Valuated p n -Socles and Primary Abelian Groups

Generalizing the classical concept of a valuated vector space, we introduce the notion of a valuated p ⁿ -socle. A valuated p ⁿ -socle is said to be n-summable if it is isometric to the valuated direct sum of countable valuated groups. Many properties of these objects are established, and in particular, they are shown to be completely classifiable using Ulm invariants, providing a strong connection with the theory of direct sums of countable abelian p-groups. The resulting theory is then applied to the category of primary abelian groups.     

Mirror symmetry for Del Pezzo surfaces: Vanishing cycles and coherent sheaves

We study homological mirror symmetry for Del Pezzo surfaces and their mirror Landau-Ginzburg models. In particular, we show that the derived category of coherent sheaves on a Del Pezzo surface X _k obtained by blowing up ℂℙ² at k points is equivalent to the derived category of vanishing cycles of a certain elliptic fibration W _k :M _k →ℂ with k+3 singular fibers, equipped with a suitable symplectic form. Moreover, we also show that this mirror correspondence between derived categories can be extended to noncommutative deformations of X _k , and give an explicit correspondence between the deformation parameters for X _k and the cohomology class [B+iω]∈H ²(M _k ,ℂ).