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Sequential completeness of quotient groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Dikran Dikranjan  and
Michael Tkačenko
Dikran Dikranjan
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy, e-mail: dikranja@dimi.uniud.it
Michael Tkačenko
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México, e-mail: mich@xanum.uam.mx
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We discuss various generalisations of countable compactness for topological groups that are related to completeness. The sequentially complete groups form a class closed with respect to taking direct products and closed subgroups. Surprisingly, the stronger version of sequential completeness called sequential h-completeness (all continuous homomorphic images are sequentially complete) implies pseudocompactness in the presence of good algebraic properties such as nilpotency. We also study quotients of sequentially complete groups and find several classes of sequentially q-complete groups (all quotients are sequentially complete). Finally, we show that the pseudocompact sequentially complete groups are far from being sequentially q-complete in the following sense: every pseudocompact Abelian group is a quotient of a pseudocompact Abelian sequentially complete group.

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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 129 - 150
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2000

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