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Alex Ravsky

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arXiv2020

Each topological group embeds into a duoseparable topological group

A topological group $X$ is called $duoseparable$ if there exists a countable set $S\subseteq X$ such that $SUS=X$ for any neighborhood $U\subseteq X$ of the unit. We construct a functor $F$ assigning to each (abelian) topological group $X$ a duoseparable (abelain-by-cyclic) topological group $FX$, containing an isomorphic copy of $X$. In fact, the functor $F$ is defined on the category of unital topologized magmas. Also we prove that each $σ$-compact locally compact abelian topological group embeds into a duoseparable locally compact abelian-by-countable topological group.

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arXiv2019

Closed subsets of compact-like topological spaces

We investigate closed subsets (subsemigroups, resp.) of compact-like topological spaces (semigroups, resp.). We prove that each Hausdorff topological space can be embedded as a closed subspace into an H-closed topological space. However, the semigroup of $ω{\timesω}$-matrix units cannot be embedded into a topological semigroup which is a weakly H-closed topological space. We show that each Hausdorff topological space is a closed subspace of some $ω$-bounded pracompact topological space and describe open dense subspaces of countably pracompact topological spaces. Also, we construct a pseudocompact topological semigroup which contains the bicyclic monoid as a closed subsemigroup, providing a positive solution of a problem posed by Banakh, Dimitrova, and Gutik.

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arXiv2019

Pseudocompact paratopological groups that are topological

We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions when a pseudocompact paratopological group is topological. (2-)pseudocompact and countably compact paratopological groups that are not topological are constructed. It is proved that each 2-pseudocompact paratopological group is pseudocompact and that each Hausdorff σ-compact pseudocompact paratopological group is a compact topological group. Our particular attention is devoted to periodic and topologically periodic pseudocompact paratopological groups.

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arXiv2019

Cone topologies of paratopological groups

We introduce so-called cone topologies of paratopological groups, which are a wide way to construct counterexamples, especially of examples of compact-like paratopological groups with discontinuous inversion. We found a simple interplay between the algebraic properties of a basic cone subsemigroup S of a group G and compact-like properties of two basic semigroup topologies generated by S on the group G.

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arXiv2019

A note on compact-like semitopological groups

The note contains a few results related to separation axioms and automatic continuity of operations in compact-like semitopological groups. In particular, is presented a semiregular semitopological group $G$ which is not $T_3$. We show that each weakly semiregular compact semitopological group is a topological group. On the other hand, constructed examples of quasiregular $T_1$ compact and $T_2$ sequentially compact quasitopological groups, which are not paratopological groups. Also we prove that a semitopological group $(G,τ)$ is a topological group provided there exists a Hausdorff topology $σ\supsetτ$ on $G$ such that $(G,σ)$ is a precompact topological group and $(G,τ)$ is weakly semiregular or $(G,σ)$ is a feebly compact paratopological group and $(G,τ)$ is $T_3$.

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arXiv2019

Embeddings into countably compact Hausdorff spaces

In this paper we consider the problem of characterization of topological spaces that embed into countably compact Hausdorff spaces. We study the separation axioms of subspaces of countably compact Hausdorff spaces and construct an example of a regular separable scattered topological space which cannot be embedded into an Urysohn countably compact topological space but embeds into a Hausdorff countably compact space.

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arXiv2019

Zero-sum subsets of decomposable sets in Abelian groups

A subset $D$ of an Abelian group is $decomposable$ if $\emptyset\ne D\subset D+D$. In the paper we give partial answer to an open problem asking whether every finite decomposable subset $D$ of an Abelian group contains a non-empty subset $Z\subset D$ with $\sum Z=0$. For every $n\in\mathbb N$ we present a decomposable subset $D$ of cardinality $|D|=n$ in the cyclic group of order $2^n-1$ such that $\sum D=0$, but $\sum T\ne 0$ for any proper non-empty subset $T\subset D$. On the other hand, we prove that every decomposable subset $D\subset\mathbb R$ of cardinality $|D|\le 7$ contains a non-empty subset $Z\subset D$ of cardinality $|Z|\le\frac12|D|$ with $\sum Z=0$. For every $n\in\mathbb N$ we present a subset $D\subset\mathbb Z$ of cardinality $|D|=2n$ such that $\sum Z=0$ for some subset $Z\subset D$ of cardinality $|Z|=n$ and $\sum T\ne 0$ for any non-empty subset $T\subset D$ of cardinality $|T|<n=\frac12|D|$. Also we prove that every finite decomposable subset $D$ of an Abelian group contains two non-empty subsets $A,B$ such that $\sum A+\sum B=0$.

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arXiv2019

The closedness of complete subsemilattices in functionally Hausdorff semitopological semilattices

A topologized semilattice $X$ is complete if each non-empty chain $C\subset X$ has $\inf C\in\bar C$ and $\sup C\in\bar C$. It is proved that for any complete subsemilattice $X$ of a functionally Hausdorff semitopological semilattice $Y$ the partial order $P=\{(x,y)\in X\times X:xy=x\}$ of $X$ is closed in $Y\times Y$ and hence $X$ is closed in $Y$. This implies that for any continuous homomorphism $h:X\to Y$ from a compete topologized semilattice $X$ to a functionally Hausdorff semitopological semilattice $Y$ the image $h(X)$ is closed in $Y$. The functional Hausdorffness of $Y$ in these two results can be replaced by the weaker separation axiom $\vec T_{2δ}$, defined in this paper.

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arXiv2019

Positive answers to Koch's problem in special cases

A topological semigroup is monothetic provided it contains a dense cyclic subsemigroup. The Koch problem asks whether every locally compact monothetic monoid is compact. This problem was opened for more than sixty years, till in 2018 Zelenyuk obtained a negative answer. In this paper we obtain a positive answer for Koch's problem for some special classes of topological monoids. Namely, we show that a locally compact monothetic topological monoid is a compact topological group if and only if $S$ is a submonoid of a quasitopological group if and only if $S$ has open shifts if and only if $S$ is non-viscous in the sense of Averbukh. The last condition means that any neighborhood $U$ of the identity $1$ of $S$ and for any element $a\in S$ there exists a neighborhood $V$ of $a$ such that any element $x\in S$ with $(xV\cup Vx)\cap V\ne\emptyset$ belongs to the neighborhood $U$ of 1.

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arXiv2019

A metrizable semitopological semilattice with non-closed partial order

We construct a metrizable semitopological semilattice $X$ whose partial order $P=\{(x,y)\in X\times X:xy=x\}$ is a non-closed dense subset of $X\times X$. As a by-product we find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a (metrizable) Hausdorff topology on a set, act, semigroup or semilattice, having a prescribed countable family of convergent sequences.

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arXiv2019

On the spread of topological groups containing subsets of the Sorgenfrey line

We prove that any topological group $G$ containing a subspace $X$ of the Sorgenfrey line has spread $s(G)\ge s(X\times X)$. Under OCA, each topological group containing an uncountable subspace of the Sorgenfrey line has uncountable spread. This implies that under OCA a cometrizable topological group $G$ is cosmic if and only if it has countable spread. On the other hand, under CH there exists a cometrizable Abelian topological group that has hereditarily Lindelöf countable power and contains an uncountable subspace of the Sorgenfrey line. This cometrizable topological group has countable spread but is not cosmic.

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arXiv2019

Banalytic spaces and characterization of Polish groups

A topological space is defined to be banalytic (resp. analytic) if it is the image of a Polish space under a Borel (resp. continuous) map. A regular topological space is analytic if and only if it is banalytic and cosmic. Each (regular) banalytic space has countable spread (and under PFA is hereditarily Lindelöf). Applying banalytic spaces to topological groups, we prove that for a Baire topological group $X$ the following conditions are equivalent: (1) $X$ is Polish, (2) $X$ is analytic, (3) $X$ is banalytic and cosmic, (4) $X$ is banalytic and has countable pseudocharacter. Under PFA the conditions (1)--(4) are equivalent to the banalycity of $X$. The conditions (1)--(3) remain equivalent for any Baire semitopological group.

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arXiv2016

$H$-closed quasitopological groups

An $H$-closed quasitopological group is a Hausdorff quasitopological group which is contained in each Hausdorff quasitopological group as a closed subspace. We obtained a sufficient condition for a quasitopological group to be $H$-closed, which allowed us to solve a problem by Arhangel'skii and Choban and to show that a topological group $G$ is $H$-closed in the class of quasitopological groups if and only if $G$ is Ra\vıkov-complete. Also we present examples of non-compact quasitopological groups whose topological spaces are $H$-closed.

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arXiv2016

Countable tightness and $\mathfrak G$-bases on Free topological groups

Given a Tychonoff space $X$, let $F(X)$ and $A(X)$ be respectively the free topological group and the free Abelian topological group over $X$ in the sense of Markov. In this paper, we consider two topological properties of $F(X)$ or $A(X)$, namely the countable tightness and $\mathfrak G$-base. We provide some characterizations of the countable tightness and $\mathfrak G$-base of $F(X)$ and $A(X)$ for various special classes of spaces $X$. Furthermore, we also study the countable tightness and $\mathfrak G$-base of some $F_{n}(X)$ of $F(X)$.

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arXiv2015

The closed Steinhaus properties of $σ$-ideals on topological groups

We prove that any meager quasi-analytic subgroup of a topological group $G$ belongs to every $σ$-ideal $\mathcal I$ on $G$ possessing the closed $\pm n$-Steinhaus property for some $n\in\mathbb N$. An ideal $\mathcal I$ on a topological group $G$ is defined to have the closed $\pm n$-Steinhaus property if for any closed subsets $A_1,\dots,A_n\notin\mathcal I$ of $G$ the product $(A_1\cup A_1^{-1})\cdots (A_n\cup A_n^{-1})$ is not nowhere dense in $G$. Since the $σ$-ideal $\mathcal E$ generated by closed Haar null sets in a locally compact group $G$ has the closed $\pm 2$-Steinhaus property, we conclude that each meager quasi-analytic subgroup $H\subset G$ belongs to the ideal $\mathcal E$. For analytic subgroups of the real line this result was proved by Laczkovich in 1998. We shall discuss possible generalizations of the Laczkovich Theorem to non-locally compact groups and construct an example of a meager Borel subgroup in $\mathbb Z^ω$ which cannot be covered by countably many closed Haar-null (or even closed Haar-meager) sets. On the other hand, assuming that $cof(\mathcal M)=cov(\mathcal M)=cov(\mathcal N)$ we construct a subgroup $H\subset 2^ω$ which is meager and Haar null but does not belong to the $σ$-ideal $\mathcal E$. The construction uses a new cardinal characteristic $voc^*(\mathcal I,\mathcal J)$ which seems to be interesting by its own.

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arXiv2015

Verbal covering properties of topological spaces

For any topological space $X$ we study the relation between the universal uniformity $\mathcal U_X$, the universal quasi-uniformity $q\mathcal U_X$ and the universal pre-uniformity $p\mathcal U_X$ on $X$. For a pre-uniformity $\mathcal U$ on a set $X$ and a word $v$ in the two-letter alphabet $\{+,-\}$ we define the verbal power $\mathcal U^v$ of $\mathcal U$ and study its boundedness numbers $\ell(\mathcal U^v)$ and $\bar \ell(\mathcal U^v)$. The boundedness numbers of the (Boolean operations over) the verbal powers of the canonical pre-uniformities $p\mathcal U_X$, $q\mathcal U_X$ and $\mathcal U_X$ yield new cardinal characteristics $\ell^v(X)$, $\bar \ell^v(X)$, $q\ell^v(X)$, $q\bar \ell^v(X)$, $u\ell(X)$ of a topological space $X$, which generalize all known cardinal topological invariants related to (star)-covering properties. We study the relation of the new cardinal invariants $\ell^v$, $\bar \ell^v$ to classical cardinal topological invariants such as Lindelöf number $\ell$, density $d$, and spread $s$. The simplest new verbal cardinal invariant is the foredensity $\ell^-(X)$ defined for a topological space $X$ as the smallest cardinal $κ$ such that for any neighborhood assignment $(O_x)_{x\in X}$ there is a subset $A\subset X$ of cardinality $|A|\leκ$ that meets each neighborhood $O_x$, $x\in X$. It is clear that $\ell^-(X)\le d(X)\le \ell^-(X)\cdot χ(X)$. We shall prove that $\ell^-(X)=d(X)$ if $|X|<\aleph_ω$. On the other hand, for every singular cardinal $κ$ (with $κ\le 2^{2^{cf(κ)}}$) we construct a (totally disconnected) $T_1$-space $X$ such that $\ell^-(X)=cf(κ)<κ=|X|=d(X)$.

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