Algebraic structure of pseudocompact groups

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 633, 1998, Pages

  Dikranjan, Dikran ^a   Shakhmatov, Dmitri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Connected space; Free group; Group; Group topology; Locally connected space; Pseudocompact space; Topological group; Torsion group; Variety of groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243418373     PISSN: 00659266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/memo/0633     Document Type: Article

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