On subgroups of minimal topological groups

Topology and its Applications

Volumn 155, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1580-1606

  Uspenskij, Vladimir V ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Idempotent; Isometry; Roelcke compactification; Semigroup; Topological group; Uniformity; Unitary group; Urysohn metric space

Indexed keywords

EID: 45849146474     PISSN: 01668641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.topol.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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