Metrization criteria for compact groups in terms of their dense subgroups

Fundamenta Mathematicae

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 161-187

  Dikranjan, Dikran ^a   Shakhmatov, Dmitri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bounded; All compact subsets are countable; Bernstein set; Countably compact; Determined group; Free group in a variety; Pseudocompact; Variety of groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877709348     PISSN: 00162736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4064/fm221-2-3     Document Type: Article

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